scholarly journals Die aard en stand van die tradisionele, nie-westerse of stammedisyne in suid-afrika

Curationis ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C.J Van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Modern Medical Practice

There exists a long-established system of traditional medicine among Blacks in South Africa next to Westernised health services. The exact extent to which traditional medicine is practised cannot be established, but evidence exists The continued use of the traditthioant ailt hise aslteilrls ,u osefdte nw itdoegleyt.her with Western medicine, is rooted in the traditionally held concepts of health and disease. Illness and death are usually attributed to mystical causes which must be identified and removed by the witchdoctor. Witchdoctors can be divided into distinct categories according to their functions and methods — i.e. diviners and medicine-men or herbalists. The methods used by the witchdoctor are not compatible with Western medicine, but their approach to patients and the community has certain attributes not found in modern medical practice. It is not envisaged that the witchdoctor will cease to play a role in the foreseeable future.

scholarly journals THE NEED FOR INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN TO MODERN MEDICAL PRACTICE

INDIAN DRUGS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
A V Rama Rao
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Dear Reader ◽  
Modern Medical Practice

Dear Reader, Thomas Edison's (1847-1931) inventions helped accelerate industrialization by taking a concept and making power generation commercially feasible and widely available. Although, he was a highly successful inventor and businessman, he did have his setbacks. He acknowledged his many failures by quoting, "I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time". This is also true when it comes to discovering new drugs, especially based on traditional medicine.

scholarly journals “Xilala is only treated with a good hand”: a study on the treatment of malnutrition in Mozambique

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janete Ismael Mabuie Gove ◽  
Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani ◽  
Vitor Henrique de Siqueira Jasper ◽  
Arune Estavela ◽  
Islândia Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Nutritional Rehabilitation ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Local View ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Health And Disease

Abstract: In Mozambique old and new evils of body and spirit intertwine, thus allowing particular contours to modern life. Traditional diseases are reconfigured along the lines of a new thinking, and what Western medicine calls malnutrition is defined as xilala by the local traditional thinking. This study aimed to understand the point of view of both caregivers (mothers and grandmothers) of children participating in a Nutritional Rehabilitation Program and ethnomedicine experts, who find themselves entangled in a complex set of relationships through which different forms to comprehend body, health, and disease circulate. The supplement, as an object, has a life of its own and takes on new meanings when it leaves the hospital. When its use happens at home, it acquires a particularity: it becomes food. Thus, it ceases to be something inert and impersonal, which is a feature of standard medicine of the health institution. The local view centered on ethnomedicine is based on the certainty that a situation affecting a child cannot have a healing outcome if not by traditional medicine. Biomedical rationality erected from the confluence of the biological and technical sciences with their scientific postulates does not constitute the authorized discourse in this context.

scholarly journals Best interests: The ‘best’ way for courts to decide if young children should act as bone marrow donors?

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Ning Then
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Potential Donor ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Potential Child ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Continued Use

Young children who are called upon to donate regenerative tissue – most commonly bone marrow – to save the life of a sick relative are in a unique position. The harvest of tissue from them is non-therapeutic and carries the risk of physical and psychological harm. However, paediatric donation is relatively common medical practice around the world. Where some doubt exists over the legality of allowing a child to donate, courts can be asked to authorize the procedure and in doing so will apply the ‘best interests’ test in making their decision. How are a young child’s rights recognized in such a situation? This article considers whether the best interests test is the ‘best’ test to be applied by courts when cases of potential child donors come before it. The approach of courts in three jurisdictions is analysed, and problems in the application of the test in this context are discussed. While the continued use of the test by courts is supported, the way the test has been used by courts is critiqued and recommendations made to better respect the rights of the potential donor child.

scholarly journals Young people’s perceptions of youth-oriented health services in urban Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative investigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany Schriver ◽  
Kathryn Meagley ◽  
Shane Norris ◽  
Rebecca Geary ◽  
Aryeh D Stein
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
People’S Perceptions

scholarly journals Evidence-based Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine I: History

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Chiappelli ◽  
Paolo Prolo ◽  
Olivia S. Cajulis
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Contemporary Western medicine has witnessed a fragmentation of our conceptualization of the medical endeavor into ‘traditional medicine’ and ‘non-traditional medicine’. The former is meant to refer to the Western medical tradition, the latter encompasses both ‘complementary’ and ‘alternative’ medical practices. Complementary medicine complements conventional medical treatments, and alternative modes of medical interventions are meant to replace traditional Western medicine. Evidence-based research must be directed at establishing the best available evidence in complementary and alternative medicine. This paper is the first of a set of four ‘lectures’ that reviews the process of evidence-based research, and discusses its implications and applications for the early decades of the 21st century. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the series by examining some of the historical and philosophical foundations of this research endeavor.

Examining Social Determinants of Undiagnosed Diabetes in Namibia and South Africa Using a Behavioral Model of Health Services Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 108814
Author(s):  
Shinduk Lee ◽  
David J. Washburn ◽  
Brian Colwell ◽  
Ibrahim H. Gwarzo ◽  
Debra Kellstedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Undiagnosed Diabetes ◽  
Health Services Use ◽  
Services Use
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