Abstract

LUCERO, Paula Aldana. Silence is not health. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2022, n.55, pp.101-118.  Epub May 05, 2022. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i55.10533.

During the last decades of the 20th century, great transformations have taken place in Argentine agriculture, among which the approval of the use of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant soybean stands out. This article analyses, from a qualitative perspective with an ethnographic approach, local practices and discourses on health and the environment in relation to the use of pesticides among health professionals in the Junín district (province of Buenos Aires) between 2015 and 2018. Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, it shows that health professionals underestimate the problem that pesticides cause in health and the environment. The paper concludes that these ideas manifest due to precarious working conditions and scarce university training in pesticide toxicology and popular epidemiology. In turn, the predominant discourse is that of the hegemonic medical model: the disease is treated (and recorded), but the network of social and cultural relations that intervene in the process of health, disease, care is excluded.

Keywords : Speeches; Health Professionals; Pesticides; Agriculture; Junín.

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