9781498523202-149852320X-Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

ISBN-13: 9781498523202
ISBN-10: 149852320X
Author: Roxane Richter, Thomas Flowers, Elias Bongmba Rice University
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Paperback 168 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781498523202
ISBN-10: 149852320X
Author: Roxane Richter, Thomas Flowers, Elias Bongmba Rice University
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Paperback 168 pages

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Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health (ISBN-13: 9781498523202 and ISBN-10: 149852320X), written by authors Roxane Richter, Thomas Flowers, Elias Bongmba Rice University, was published by Lexington Books in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Psychotherapy, TA & NLP (Psychology & Counseling) books. You can easily purchase or rent Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Psychotherapy, TA & NLP books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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