Do socioeconomic factors and local human preference determine the hybridization of knowledge in local medical systems?

• Main Authors: Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira (Author), Gustavo Taboada Soldati (Author), Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior (Author), Flávia Rosa Santoro (Author), Luci de Senna Valle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Hybridization between the local medical systems (LMSs) and biomedicine has been the focus of different studies in ethnobiology, primarily due to the increasing access to biomedicine by indigenous peoples and local communities. Studies on hybridization allow for an understanding o...