The "dead man race" of three triqui persons with serious illness

Abstract

In this paper I will focus on the career of three subjects suffering from serious illnesses, two children and an adult, who I had an opportunity to meet in their native region in the state of Oaxaca. Their curative procedures allowed me to account for in the search of strategies used to solve their health problem, more so when it is a serious problem. Through recognizing the illness career I identify their representations about the disease, the sequence of their practices and results, diagnostic changes that occurred along the path, management and evolution. In this way I try to see in the career, as told and observed, what really was done before illness and its consequences in the search for the solution of the suffering, in a context of social and economic constraints as in the Triqui population.