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Traditional Medicine Utilization in Illness Behavior: Ethiopia's Case

English · Paperback / Softback

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People through the ages have made sense of their health conditions through various ways. In the meantime, there are also common perspectives peculiar to particular society for understanding health and illness, and for responding to the concurrent perceived abnormalities. The concept of illness behavior, by taking into account the undeniable presence of individual differences and cultural or societal commonalities as well, therefore comes at this juncture. In this regard, with its holistic nature, traditional medicine has maintained a longstanding worldwide popularity and is used by many people either in the developed or developing countries. This empirical research based book, by taking in to consideration herbal treatments and religious healing in Ethiopia, substantiates the knowledge we have so far about traditional medicine from sociological point of view. It focuses on who uses traditional medicine and how and why it is used in illness behavior. In this first of its kind book, the author investigated the medical sociological concept of illness behavior in relation to the medical anthropological issue of traditional medicine by using a model from public health.

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Abenezer Yared has earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Gondar. Currently, he is a lecturer and researcher at the department of Sociology and Social Work, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ambo University.

Product details

Authors Abenezer Yared
Publisher LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2015
 
EAN 9783659718670
ISBN 978-3-659-71867-0
No. of pages 124
Dimensions 150 mm x 220 mm x 7 mm
Weight 203 g
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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