Jocelyn Velasquez Baez

Jocelyn Velasquez Baez

Wesleyan University

Jocelyn Velasquez Baez

Project

Ethical Understandings of Traditional Medicine

  • Samoa
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  • The Philippines
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  • Thailand
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  • Nepal
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  • Ghana
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  • Brazil
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  • Ecuador
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  • Japan
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  • Peru

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Traditional medicine has been able to survive colonization and modernization because of its resiliency and adaptive capacity. But how is traditional medicine perceived within Indigenous and ethnic communities? Engaging with traditional medicine practitioners, knowledge keepers, and community members, I explored their understanding of traditional medicine, and its future in the wider healthcare system.

Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez traveling with the Watson Foundation