IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v16y1982i21p1851-1857.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Biomedical and ethnomedical practice in rural Zaire : Contrasts and complements

Author

Listed:
  • Stanley Yoder, P.

Abstract

Some health care planners and scholars who work in developing countries have advocated the promotion of some form of cooperation, collaboration, or even integration of the medical services of biomedical practitioners with the services of local healers. This paper discusses issues that must be addressed in the consideration of such a possibility in a rural community in Zaire where the 'dual use' of medical resources is evident. After briefly outlining the characteristics of the biomedical and ethnomedical systems that now exist, the strengths and weaknesses of each system are evaluated and compared. In promoting cooperation between different types of practitioners, project planners, it is argued, should consider the strengths and weaknesses of each type of medical practice and should seek to improve the use of existing medical resources. The paper concludes by outlining a series of progressive stages of contact among practitioners that could lead to a system of mutual referral.

Suggested Citation

  • Stanley Yoder, P., 1982. "Biomedical and ethnomedical practice in rural Zaire : Contrasts and complements," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 16(21), pages 1851-1857, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:16:y:1982:i:21:p:1851-1857
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(82)90446-4
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. DeJong, Jocelyn, 1991. "Traditional medicine in sub-Saharan Africa : its importance and potential policy options," Policy Research Working Paper Series 735, The World Bank.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:16:y:1982:i:21:p:1851-1857. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.