Health system, sickness and social suffering in Mekelle (Tigray

Sonst. Personen	Schirripa, Pino (Hrsg.)
Titel	Health system, sickness and social suffering in Mekelle (Tigray - Ethiopia). Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gesundheitssystem, Krankheit und Leiden in Mekelle (Tigray-Äthiopien).
Quelle	Berlin: Lit Verl. (2010), 147 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Mekelle University Social Science Series. 1
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-643-10952-1
Schlagwörter	Soziale Ungleichheit; Anthropologie; Familie; Kind; Biomedizin; Geschlecht; Krankheit; AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); Gesundheitsverhalten; Gesundheitswesen; Heilung; Medizinische Versorgung; Ungleichheit; Diskriminierung; Entwicklungsland; Management; Praxis; Afrika; Ostafrika; Subsahara-Afrika; Äthiopien
Abstract	"In medical anthropology 'medical system' refers to all the healing practices, therapeutic knowledge and traditions that in a specific social context people can use in order to cope with health problems. It refers as well to all the social actors involved: health professionals, healers, priests, patients and their kin, as well as policy makers. Starting from this perspective, this book presents the first results of an ethnographic research, which the authors carried out in Tigray between 2007 and 2008. It analyses, in the social context of Mekelle - the capital town of Tigray -, the different healing practices and therapeutic traditions, as well as the strategies of the actors acting in the social arena. It also explotes the traditional nosologies, and the health care seeking behaviours of the patients in a context characterised by social suffering and inequalities." (author's abstract). Contents: Gebre Ab Barnabas: Preface (9-11); Pino Schirripa: Introduction: the anthropologies of medical systems (13-34); Alessia Villanucci: Traditional healers in the context of health care (35-65); Emanuele Bruni: Traditional nosologies and vernacularization of biomedicine (67-98); Aurora Massa: Health care seeking behaviours and sickness management in Mekelle (99-129).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2012/1