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Zvinorwadza: Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

Zvinorwadza: Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

Dahlin, Olov

Paperback

Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn, Book 748

Religion General AnthropologyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 3631395760
ISBN13: 9783631395769
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Oct 22 2002
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Zvinorwadza, a very common formulation heard among patients in the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe, means it is painful or it hurts. This book deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses two basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? Patients' illness experiences are described with the word pain, anxiety and sometimes despair; their social situations are often marked by vulnerability, exposedness and insecurity which apply to both genders, but particulary to women; their help-seeking behaviour is characterised by pragmatism, complementarity and plurality; their conceptions about illnesses and aetiologies involve qualities of uncertainty, flexibility and multidimensionality; and, finally, patients' treatment experiences can be depicted in three words: some experienced ease, others complete healing, while a significant group of the multi-episodical patients experienced non-deliverance. It is concluded that the phenomena illness and healing need to be regarded holistically and that it is of crucial importance to acknowledge patients' own ideas concerning these issues.

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