Transdisciplinary Research on Cancer-Healing Systems Between Biomedicine and the Maya of Guatemala: A Tool for Reciprocal Reflexivity in a Multi-Epistemological Setting

This article describes this intercultural cooperation and presents a method of reciprocal reflexivity (Bidirectional Emic–Etic tool) developed to overcome them. As a result of application, researchers observed successful knowledge integration at the epistemic level, the social-organizational level, and the communicative level throughout the study. This approach may prove beneficial to others engaged in facilitating participatory health research in complex intercultural settings.

Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Berger-Gonzalez, M., Stauffacher, M., Zinsstag, J., Edwards, P., Krütli, P. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research