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Title:Traditional medicine manpower in Nigeria: a study of their attributes and scope of practice
Authors:Erinosho, Olayiwola A.
Ayonrinde, Akolawole
Year:1984
Periodical:The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies
Volume:26
Issue:3
Pages:315-331
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:healers
psychotherapy
traditional medicine
Abstract:The present study was stimulated by the need to provide baseline data on which state policy on coexistence of traditional and Western systems of health care in Nigeria could be anchored. Five hundred and fifty traditional healers in six of Nigeria's nineteen states were interviewed. Focus was on the profile of traditional healers (demographic attributes, mode of training), their areas of specialization and scope of practice, their involvement in guilds, and their opinions on the issue of collaboration with and/or recognition by the Nigerian authorities. Perhaps the central question emanating from the study concerns the likely future of traditional healers and traditional medicine, given the fact that healers are aging very fast and that much of their knowledge derives from oral tradition. Bibliogr.
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