X MARC Colloquium: RETHINKING HEALTHCARE CULTURES IN HEALTHCARE

The next annual colloquium of the MARC, planned for this edition under the title "Rethinking healthcare cultures in health care", will take place on June 25 and 26 in face-to-face format (Sala de Juntes and Sala de Vistes, Campus Catalunya, URV).

This year's colloquium aims to analyze the paradox of current health care. Despite decades of reforms aimed at promoting equity, participation and the humanisation of care, inequalities continue to be reproduced in the everyday practice of health services. Inclusive protocols, frameworks of cultural or structural competence, shared decision-making strategies and participatory initiatives often coexist with dynamics that render the social conditions of suffering invisible, hierarchise forms of knowledge and restrict the agency of patients and communities. This paradox compels us to interrogate the healthcare cultures that shape clinical practice. The issue is not merely one of evaluating policies or introducing new tools, but of analysing the constellations of values, categories, norms, forms of knowledge and institutional routines that determine what is recognised as a clinical problem, which kinds of knowledge are deemed legitimate and how relationships between professionals, patients and communities are organised. Culture does not operate here as an external context, but as the very medium that structures the everyday production of equity or exclusion. The X Colloquium of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) proposes to address these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together medical anthropology, public health, communication studies, nursing and organisational studies, among others. The panels devoted to a new healthcare culture, structural competence, social and community participation, and the communication and humanisation of care examine different dimensions of a shared problem: how to transform the cultural logics that shape healthcare practice without reducing the complexity of contexts or simplifying the tensions inherent in care. Rethinking healthcare cultures ultimately means opening a space for debate on how to reconfigure health systems from within so as to make them more reflexive, participatory and socially just.

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