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Title: | The duality of traditional and Western medicine in Africa: mystics, myths and reality |
Author: | Mburu, F.M. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | The Conch: A Biafran Journal of Literary and Cultural Analysis |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 158-185 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | medical sciences traditional medicine |
Abstract: | Describes the relevance of both the traditional and modern medicine to an indigenous population. It explores the conflicts resultant from the interaction of discordant belief systems, interest groups, fear of dismemberment and sheer ignorance of the dynamics of the alien system vis-a-vis the indigenous. Ref. |