The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Wreford, Joanne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-25T20:08:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-25T20:08:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-25T12:58:04Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The persistence ofthe binary of scientific and indigenous or traditional medicine in contemporary South Africa is particularly unhelpful in the context of HIV/AIDS and encourages biomedical disengagement from a potentially helpful cohort of health professionals recognised within their communities. This article offers and discusses ethnographic evidence from Project HOPE, an HIV/AIDS intervention involving African traditional health practitioners (isiXhosa: amagqirha) in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The article suggests several possibilities of advantage to the efficacy of western medical interventions in this sort of collaborative approach. Testimony from participants from both paradigms is offered to support this assertion. The article includes a contextual examination of the debate about HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa which explores the effects of confused interpretations of 'traditional' and scientific medicine in this regard. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Wreford, J. (2009). <i>The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19869 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Wreford, Joanne <i>The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19869 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wreford, J. (2009). The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa, 32(1-2), 37-47. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2332-3256 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Wreford, Joanne AB - The persistence ofthe binary of scientific and indigenous or traditional medicine in contemporary South Africa is particularly unhelpful in the context of HIV/AIDS and encourages biomedical disengagement from a potentially helpful cohort of health professionals recognised within their communities. This article offers and discusses ethnographic evidence from Project HOPE, an HIV/AIDS intervention involving African traditional health practitioners (isiXhosa: amagqirha) in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The article suggests several possibilities of advantage to the efficacy of western medical interventions in this sort of collaborative approach. Testimony from participants from both paradigms is offered to support this assertion. The article includes a contextual examination of the debate about HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa which explores the effects of confused interpretations of 'traditional' and scientific medicine in this regard. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 SM - 2332-3256 T1 - The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa TI - The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19869 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19869 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Wreford J. The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa. 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19869 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights.holder | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Traditional health practitioners | |
| dc.subject.other | indigenous knowledge | |
| dc.subject.other | biomedicine | |
| dc.subject.other | HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.subject.other | medical collaboration | |
| dc.title | The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |