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African Traditional Medicine: Practices Among The Yoruba Of Nigeria

Author :  David O. Oyebola

Product Details

Country
Nigeria
Publisher
University of Ibadan Press, Nigeria
ISBN 9789789111749
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2010
Bib. Info xiv, 426p. Includes Index
Categories Anthropology/Archaeology
Product Weight 750 gms.
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This book is written to provide information on various aspects of Yoruba, and, indeed, African traditional medicine. The writer's research on Yoruba traditional medicine provides the bulk of the materials in the book. The book consists of eleven chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 provide the background to the book. Chapters 3 to 10 encapsulate the different aspects of Yoruba traditional medicine such as classification of healers, methods of training of healers, methods of diagnosis and investigation of diseases, treatment of diseases, Yoruba pharmacopoeia, midwifery, bone-setting, and other forms of traditional surgery. Chapter 11 describes the meeting point of hospitals and healers; this meeting point, in the opinion of the author, should be how best to serve the interests of the patients. The best form of relationship that should exist between hospitals and healers is also discussed.

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