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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      13 September 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511613128
      9780521575430
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613128
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.395kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Medicine: General Interest, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (3)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Medicine: General Interest, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (3)
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    Morality and medicine are inextricably intertwined in rural Haiti, and both are shaped by the different local religious traditions, Christian and Vodoun, as well as by biomedical and folk medical practices. When people fall ill, they seek treatment not only from Western doctors but also from herbalists, religious healers and midwives. Dr Brodwin examines the situational logic, the pragmatic decisions, that guide people in making choices when they are faced with illness. He also explains the moral issues that arise in a society where suffering is associated with guilt, but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist. Moreover, he shows how in the crisis of illness people rework religious identities and are forced to address fundamental social and political problems.

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