2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-12902009000400002
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Saúde e doença em Moçambique

Abstract: ResumoBaseando-se num longo período de observação directa e entrevistas, este artigo aponta como principal obstáculo às pouco frutuosas tentativas de diálogo entre biomedicina e "medicina tradicional", em Moçambique, o desconhecimento e/ou desvalorização das noções locais acerca da doença, vertentes sociais da sua etiologia e suas implicações para a noção e processo de cura. Assim, a par da caracterização dos tinyanga (terapeutas putativamente possuídos por espíritos) e das terapias que utilizam, o artigo expõ… Show more

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“…When asked for help, a curandeiro tries first to understand the origin of the disease. In African culture, diseases are often put down to a system of misfortune in which material causes (how it occurred) are closely linked to social and spiritual factors (why it happened to that person) (Granjo, 2009). Severe diseases caused by evil spirits and sorcerers or sorceresses (feitiç eros/as, or varoya in local ChiTewe language) can be due to loss of protection from the ancestors as a consequence for having neglected ritual ceremonies of respect and memory or having had an immoral behavior, such as infidelity and intra-family conflicts (Pfeiffer, 2005).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When asked for help, a curandeiro tries first to understand the origin of the disease. In African culture, diseases are often put down to a system of misfortune in which material causes (how it occurred) are closely linked to social and spiritual factors (why it happened to that person) (Granjo, 2009). Severe diseases caused by evil spirits and sorcerers or sorceresses (feitiç eros/as, or varoya in local ChiTewe language) can be due to loss of protection from the ancestors as a consequence for having neglected ritual ceremonies of respect and memory or having had an immoral behavior, such as infidelity and intra-family conflicts (Pfeiffer, 2005).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, treatment with a "nyanga" (healer) may be as expensive as that with a doctor, or even more expensive. On this basis, we cannot consider a healer to be a doctor "for the poor" or for classes of a lower intellectual level [7].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The figure of the healer symbolizes the treatment of these ills by means of herbs, prayers, or sacrifices. The spectrum of the activities of traditional doctors involves a diagnosis (divination) and treatment (with mixtures of plant products, skin cuts at points considered vulnerable called scarifications, or expulsion of spirits) [7][8][9]. Today, traditional doctors have a Department of the Health Ministry for Traditional Medicine activities.…”
Section: Health Disease and Traditional Medicine In Mozambiquementioning
confidence: 99%
“…22 Uma das perspetivas apontadas por diversos autores, como por exemplo Kleinman e Benson (2006), Richard Mollica (2008-2009) entre outros, passa por criar estruturas de saúde que abram a possibilidade de olhar o sofrimento e o trauma a partir da pesquisa etnográfica e transdisciplinar, onde o "outro" passe a ser considerado como o "nós", contribuindo com os seus saberes e interpretações, a partir da sua própria história de vida. Neste artigo, tomaremos como referência os conceitos de "competência cultural na saúde" apresentado por estes autores, propondo a partir das suas teorias e práticas a existência de novas ferramentas concetuais e técnicas, de modo a que o sistema de saúde em Portugal possa lidar eficazmente com as particularidades e necessidades dos refugiados em sofrimento.…”
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