Evaluating Biomedical and Ethnomedical Health Care Models in Ghana

This article describes some of the problems inherent in studying the therapeutic efficacy of ritual healing. It then argues for a biocultural evolutionary approach that takes seriously the healing claims of local practitioners by incorporating the effects of psychosocial variables in sickness and he...

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Main Author: Strayer, Chelsea Shields (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2013
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 384-390
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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