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This dissertation examines the significance of acupuncture in Brazil by analyzing how it is taught in different educational institutions and understood by course coordinators. It finds that while Chinese medical rationality makes up most of the curriculum, medical doctors seek to subordinate acupuncture to Western medical rationality through scientific discourse. This contradiction reveals hidden interests in colonizing knowledge from other cultural universes that challenge the hegemony of contemporary West

Author

Henrique Martins

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PT