The infancy of Edward Shelonga: an extended case from the Zambian Nkoya

Author(s):
Binsbergen, W.M.J. van
Editor(s):
Geest S. van der, Veen K.W.
Published
1979
Publication type
Part of book or chapter of book

Abstract

The case history is based on the health experiences of a boy in the first years of his life. The author aims to shed some light on one of the crucial medical problems of the Third World: the interplay between cosmopolitan (i.e. western, modern) medicine, and such other forms of medicine as exist locally. He argues that the health behaviour of the people involved in the case are rational and understandable. In a postscript (pp. 87-90) he explains his position on the role of cognition more fully.

HistoryZambiamedical sciencesfolk medicinechild health
Date issued
1979
Language
English
Publisher
Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vakgroep Culturele Antropologie en Niet-westerse Sociologie Algemeen (CANSA), Antopologisch-Sociologisch Centrum
Is part of
In search of health: essays in medical anthropology (1979), p. 19-90
ISBN source
9070313022
hdl
1887/8944