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Witchcraft As a Social Diagnosis
Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health
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2017
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2017
Copyright Year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-2318-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-2319-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
148
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 History, Tradition, and Religion No access Pages 1 - 16
2 Gnani—Banished to Witches’ Village No access Pages 17 - 36
3 Medical Concepts of Disease and Interpretations of Illness No access Pages 37 - 68
4 Gnani—Etiology of Diseases and Disorders No access Pages 69 - 94
5 Pathologies of Prejudice in Social Mechanisms No access Pages 95 - 108
6 Facing Forward No access Pages 109 - 130
Appendix No access Pages 131 - 132
Bibliography No access Pages 133 - 142
Index No access Pages 143 - 146
About the Authors No access Pages 147 - 148
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