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This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches' village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.
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Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis, Roxane Richter
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roxane Richter
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN10
- 149852320X
- ISBN13
- 9781498523202
- Series
- Tags
- Health & Medicine, Nature
- Description
- This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches' village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft.