Therapeutic strategies and traditional medical knowledge of the people of Bar Chando sublocation, Bondo District, Kenya
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Date
2001Author
Mulemi, Benson A
Nangendo, Stevie M
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ArticleLanguage
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The AA. examine the various ways through which the people of Bar Chando sublocation conceptualise, apprehend and experience disease as well as how they organize themselves in attempt to achieve good medical care. Disease threatens not only the well-being of those afflicted and their relatives but also the integrity of the whole community at large. Therefore, the people in Bar Chando sub-location rely to a large extent on their traditional medicines to deal with a wide array of ailments.
Citation
Curare 2001, vol. 24, no1-2, pp. 47-56Publisher
Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya The Catholic University of Eastern, Nairobi, Department of Social Sciences,
Subject
Therapeutic ChoiceCulture bound syndrome
Medical pluralism
AIDS
Sexually transmissible disease
Modern medicine
Sect
Christianity
Religion
Phytotherapy
Domestic medicine
Evil eye
Witchcraft
Divination
Supernatural world
Popular Beliefs
Taboo
Folk medicine
Etiology Illness conception
Health behaviour
Luo
Kenya
East Africa