Adriana Marcus

Adriana Marcus

She was born on October 12, 1955 in Buenos Aires, the daughter and granddaughter of German Jewish immigrants persecuted by Nazism. She studied medicine at UBA, where she was a teaching assistant, while working as a nurse in various clinics. Due to his kidnapping in 1978-1979 (detained-disappeared at ESMA) he interrupted his studies, resuming them in 1980 until he received it in 1982. In that year he "went to work" in the interior of the Neuquén province, where he specialized in General Medicine with Rural Orientation. In Neuquén their two children were born and grew up.
He worked in provincial public hospitals until his retirement in 2011. For the last 23 years, his practice has been developed mainly in ambulatory care in a Zapala neighborhood, and in the rural area, where he was able to enrich his practice with contributions from Mapuche medicine and popular health care practices (the so-called "interculturality"), the so-called "medicinal plants", the accompaniment of pregnant women from a local interdisciplinary device for approaches of high psychosocial complexity and the transgenerational dimensions that operate after diseases. He participated in an advisory committee to improve the quality of health care from the "Committee for the analysis of maternal and infant mortality", from which the course "Sciences of the beginning of life: a multidisciplinary journey for a new understanding of the to be and to be born ”, which sowed new paths in the following professional generations.
Currently he accompanies groups that take care of the beginning of life in different places and form the "Red Tangled Rhizomes, for the care of the beginning of life", from where multiple activities are carried out, he publishes together with other people the "notes for citizenship" It disseminates unit articles at minimum prices on maternity, ecology, healthy plants and ancestral knowledge, and participates in the Jarilla Network of Healthy Plants of Patagonia, from where it shares knowledge and popular health practices.
He has written 8 books on healthy plants, and articles on pregnancy, ecology, healthy plants and others that were published in various media.