A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde
The health-care system in Mozambique includes two ethno-medical sub-systems: conventional medicine and traditional medicine. The traditional medicine sub-system combines the use of pharmaceutical products with the (re)activation of social relations and representations which turn it into a complex fi...
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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2003-05-01
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| description | The health-care system in Mozambique includes two ethno-medical sub-systems: conventional medicine and traditional medicine. The traditional medicine sub-system combines the use of pharmaceutical products with the (re)activation of social relations and representations which turn it into a complex field of interpretation, in terms of both diagnosis and therapy. It is by analysing this interaction that we are able to come to a possible understanding of their efficacy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d4587fbd8404c848885912ac3aa81082024-02-13T15:51:59ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002003-05-01412113310.4000/cea.1567A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúdeJosé FialhoThe health-care system in Mozambique includes two ethno-medical sub-systems: conventional medicine and traditional medicine. The traditional medicine sub-system combines the use of pharmaceutical products with the (re)activation of social relations and representations which turn it into a complex field of interpretation, in terms of both diagnosis and therapy. It is by analysing this interaction that we are able to come to a possible understanding of their efficacy.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1567MozambiqueAfricahealth systemtraditional medicinesymbolic efficiency |
| spellingShingle | José Fialho A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Mozambique Africa health system traditional medicine symbolic efficiency |
| title | A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde |
| title_full | A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde |
| title_fullStr | A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde |
| title_full_unstemmed | A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde |
| title_short | A eficácia simbólica nos sistemas tradicionais de saúde |
| title_sort | eficacia simbolica nos sistemas tradicionais de saude |
| topic | Mozambique Africa health system traditional medicine symbolic efficiency |
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