The natural gynecology in Latin America: A sociocultural movement of the present

Abstract

This article tries to describe some of the characteristics of Natural Gynecology, considering its development as a sociocultural expression that emerged in the last decade in Latin America. Following the criteria of the Grounded theory, two of the most common categories in a series of texts written and distributed independently in the last four years are described. On the one hand, the informative and pedagogic principle, combining information brought from ancient knowledge and from the knowledge that is shared among pairs. On the other hand, a constant questioning of the pathologizing and biomedicalizing drift of medicine. The results obtained allow us to sketch a shared ideology, but in permanent transformation.