The indigenization of pharmaceuticals: Therapeutic transitions in rural Hausaland

Nina L. Etkin, Paul J. Ross and Ibrahim Muazzamu

Social Science & Medicine, 1990, vol. 30, issue 8, 919-928

Abstract: A West African case study illustrates how indigenous understandings of disease and therapeutics may influence the utilization of biomedicines. This focus suggests a more comprehensive approach for the evaluation and design of health care delivery systems in developing world contexts.

Keywords: ethnomedicine; pharmaceuticals; development; ethnopharmacology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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