Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
| dc.contributor.author | Wreford, Joanne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-16T09:59:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-16T09:59:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-16T09:57:56Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines some often repeated 'medical myths' about Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in South Africa, in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Narratives have served many purposes in the pandemic: the stories included here provide specific commentary, often implicitly derogatory or critical, on the role of THPs. The anecdotes can be seen to reflect the uneasy interaction generally prevailing between the traditional and biomedical paradigms in South Africa. The paper first examines some of the reasons for the biomedical presumptions that underlie these narratives. It argues that in attributing blame, the stories exert an unhelpful effect and undermine confidence in the possibility of collaborative medical efforts against HIV and AIDS. In contrast, the paper utilises field evidence to suggest that, given mutual respect, THPs can be successfully drawn into biomedical prevention and treatment interventions, and thereby improve their efficacy. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Wreford, J. (2008). <i>Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19665 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Wreford, Joanne <i>Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19665 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wreford, J. (2008). Shaming and blaming: medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Wreford, Joanne AB - This paper examines some often repeated 'medical myths' about Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in South Africa, in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Narratives have served many purposes in the pandemic: the stories included here provide specific commentary, often implicitly derogatory or critical, on the role of THPs. The anecdotes can be seen to reflect the uneasy interaction generally prevailing between the traditional and biomedical paradigms in South Africa. The paper first examines some of the reasons for the biomedical presumptions that underlie these narratives. It argues that in attributing blame, the stories exert an unhelpful effect and undermine confidence in the possibility of collaborative medical efforts against HIV and AIDS. In contrast, the paper utilises field evidence to suggest that, given mutual respect, THPs can be successfully drawn into biomedical prevention and treatment interventions, and thereby improve their efficacy. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa TI - Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19665 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19665 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Wreford J. Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19665 | 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 | 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/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.subject.other | Medical myths | |
| dc.subject.other | Traditional health practitioners | |
| dc.title | Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |