WHO guidelines challenged in Botswana: traditional medicine between healing, politics and witchcraft

WHO guidelines challenged in Botswana: traditional medicine between healing, politics and witchcraft

The World Health Organization (WHO) supports integrating traditional health care into national health systems. The reasons why this is not happening in Botswana are manifold, complex and not always rational. Traditional healers demand the right to practice their techniques and organize themselves wi...

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Main Author: Klaus Geiselhart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Arizona Libraries 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Political Ecology
Online Access:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22919
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spelling doaj-a12c7abbcbfd4167be6c60573ddb53202020-11-25T01:08:41ZengUniversity of Arizona LibrariesJournal of Political Ecology1073-04512018-06-0125116918510.2458/v25i1.2291922228WHO guidelines challenged in Botswana: traditional medicine between healing, politics and witchcraftKlaus Geiselhart0University of Erlangen-NurembergThe World Health Organization (WHO) supports integrating traditional health care into national health systems. The reasons why this is not happening in Botswana are manifold, complex and not always rational. Traditional healers demand the right to practice their techniques and organize themselves with an emancipatory political claim, but they are unsuccessful. Based on a political ecology of health perspective combined with assemblage thinking, this article explores discourses and historical lines of development in order to show how Christian morality, the dualism between tradition and modernity and the introduction of a modern public health system are intertwined with belief in witchcraft that clandestinely hampers development.https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22919
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description The World Health Organization (WHO) supports integrating traditional health care into national health systems. The reasons why this is not happening in Botswana are manifold, complex and not always rational. Traditional healers demand the right to practice their techniques and organize themselves with an emancipatory political claim, but they are unsuccessful. Based on a political ecology of health perspective combined with assemblage thinking, this article explores discourses and historical lines of development in order to show how Christian morality, the dualism between tradition and modernity and the introduction of a modern public health system are intertwined with belief in witchcraft that clandestinely hampers development.
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