El imaginario de la horizontalidad como instrumento de subordinación: la Política de Salud pueblos indígenas en el multiculturalismo neoliberal chileno

This paper develops an analysis of documentary sources of chilean’s Public Health Policy of In- digenous Peoples from a critical medical anthro- pology standpoint. Understanding public policy as ideological productions, it analyses the axis of interculturality, equity and participation in the context of Chile’s governmental “Neoliberal multiculturalism”, showing the socioculturalism and voluntarism that guide their diagnoses and ac- tions. From an analysis of hegemony/subalternity relationships, it shows how de-historization allows the production of horizontality imaginary in con- texts of power asymmetry, fulfilling the ideological function to support intercultural health as an an- swer to the problem of health inequity, darkening the participation that this policy has in the process of the same inequity’s production. In the end, we conclude by asking the significance of a policy constructed from other ideological assumptions.