María Hernández, Alyshia Gálvez, Sandra Verdaguer, Samuel Martínez, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, Karen R Flórez
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Abstract
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed remedios caseros (home remedies) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants attributed use of remedios caseros to factors such as overpacked hospitals and limited information from authoritative sources about preventing and alleviating COVID-19. Findings suggest that home remedies were a survival strategy born out of necessity, or imperative resilience.Media teaser: Mexican immigrants devised and deployed strategies around remedios caseros in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.
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