Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

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Author(s): Roxane Richter; Thomas Flowers; Elias Bongmba
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498523202
Edition: 1st Edition

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This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating indigenous beliefs surrounding fate and witchcraft convictions from contemporary interpretations of biological pathogens, structural and gender-based violence, and evidence-based medicine. This book offers a novel perspective on witchcraft as it examines questions of stigmatization in order to extrapolate how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. These unprecedented insights will serve to uncover and explore rural Ghanaian challenges in gender-based violence, religion, legal and political tenets, human rights, and medical science and their many implications for those in search of health parity, social justice, gender equity, and human rights.

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

$49.99

Author(s): Roxane Richter; Thomas Flowers; Elias Bongmba
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498523189
Edition: 1st Edition

Important: No Access Code

Delivery: This can be downloaded Immediately after purchasing.

Version: Only PDF Version.

Compatible Devices: Can be read on any device (Kindle, NOOK, Android/IOS devices, Windows, MAC)

Quality: High Quality. No missing contents. Printable

Recommended Software: Check here

Description

This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating indigenous beliefs surrounding fate and witchcraft convictions from contemporary interpretations of biological pathogens, structural and gender-based violence, and evidence-based medicine.

This book offers a novel perspective on witchcraft as it examines questions of stigmatization in order to extrapolate how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. These unprecedented insights will serve to uncover and explore rural Ghanaian challenges in gender-based violence, religion, legal and political tenets, human rights, and medical science and their many implications for those in search of health parity, social justice, gender equity, and human rights.