The voices of Choga: dissonances and consonances about a popular disease
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.37.2016.16615Keywords:
Choga, Equatorial Guinea, popular knowledge, biomedical discourses, production and transformation of knowledge, therapeutic itineraries.Abstract
“Choga” is the popular name for a pathological set of symptoms which is widespread amongst children in Equatorial Guinea. When questioned if any of their children had ever suffered it, over 70% of mothers in Bata answered yes. Knowledge, representations and practices dealing with choga include both elements from the popular sphere and the health sector. In this sense, they encourage us to re-think the links between modern medicine and traditional medicine, as well as the heterogeneous and dynamic character of popular and biomedical knowledge. The new mechanisms of transmission of knowledge in the urban context, the points of contact with the biomedical sphere and deficiencies in the health system shape a context in which both individuals and groups play an active role in the production and transformation of knowledge.Downloads
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