Empiric-metaphysical medicine and modern medicine in Africa
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https://doi.org/10.25761/anaisihmt.77
Résumé
This paper looks to the past to refute a mechanistic vision that perpetuates the colonial perceptions of medicine in African societies. African medical practices existed before, during and after colonization, and it is reductive to consider them under the mantle of tradition, which obfuscates the possibility of analysis and comparison. In place of the inadequate concept of traditional medicine, “empiric-metaphysical medicine” more aptly qualifies the medical practices of African societies. What does this new concept bring to the knowledge of medical practices within the continent? How did “empiric-metaphysical” medicine resist powerful modern medicine? What continuities and ruptures characterize the history of medicine in Africa?
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Références
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2. Beck A, (1981), Medicine, tradition, and development in Kenya and Tanzania 1920-1970, Massachusetts, Crossroad Press, USA.
3. Domergue-Cloarec, D. (1986), La santé en Côte d’Ivoire, Association des publications de l’université Toulouse –le Mirail, 1986, tome 1, France.
4. Thuillier P, (1980), Le petit savant illustré, Paris, Seuil, France.
5. Rosny E de, (1992), L’Afrique des guérisons, Paris, Karthala, France.
6. CicoureI AV, (1985), Raisonnement et diagnostic : le rôle du discours et de la compréhension clinique en médecine, Actes des recherches en sciences sociales, 60, 1985, vol 1, 79-89.
7. Claude Bernard, (1865), Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale, Paris, JB Baillières et fils, France.
8. Illife J.,(1998), East African doctors a History of Modern profession, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1998.
Publiée
2018-06-24
Comment citer
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Bado J-P. Empiric-metaphysical medicine and modern medicine in Africa. ihmt [Internet]. 24juin2018 [cité 12déc.2025];15(1):55-8. Available from: https://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/77
Rubrique
Doenças, agentes patogénicos, atores, instituições e visões da medicina tropical
