Abstract

DEL AGUILA, Álvaro. Some reflections in anthropological way to the article "Use and abuse of the term perception of risk" by Dr. Silvia Martínez Calvo. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2018, vol.44, n.1, pp. 166-171. ISSN 1561-3127.

The present debate article has the purpose of dialoguing on the perspective proposed by Dr. Silvia Martínez Calvo in her article entitled "Use and abuse of the term perception of risk", which was published in Revista Cubana de Salud Pública, 2017;43(3). The main objective is to try to make some contributions from anthropology and the study of this work to open a debate by the author regarding the perception of risk and the ways in which people act in front of what is represented as dangerous (or not ). Although our reflections are nourished by the ethnographic fieldwork carried out over more than fifteen years in different fields of work (construction sites, hospital institutions, educational institutions, different areas of factory production, among others), in this article we will merely limit to some general lines of inquiry that are intended to contribute to the debate. Particularly, we will seek to deepen in something that was highlighted by Dr. Martínez Calvo and that refers to the way in which different social groups represent the daily risks to which they are exposed. Specially, we will be interested in reflecting on the way in which gender and certain legitimized ideals of masculinity intervene in the configuration of singular perceptions and attitudes towards "danger". Finally, as Martínez Calvo points out, we must stop "blaming the victim" and begin to see the complexity of the problem in all its expression.

Keywords : Perception of risk; anthropology.

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