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The concept of flow in Rwandan popular medicine
Social Science and Medicine, 1988This paper examines Rwandan popular concepts of health and physiology focusing upon notions which concern the bodily secretions: blood, saliva, semen, and maternal milk. Through the analysis of a female patient's description of an illness caused by "poisoning', the author demonstrates that Rwandan notions of individual health, social order, and the ...
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The Popularization of Medicine
2013In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith-healing.
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Communicating medicine popularizing medicine
2016This volume is a collection of original chapters on various aspects of healthcare communication. In terms of approaches and aspects investigated, the variety of the studies presented consistently bears witness to the inherent complexity of the transmission and dissemination of knowledge in the medical domain, characterized as it is by different levels ...
F. Daniele, G.E. Garzone
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