title: Anaesthesia in Africa. The effect of the African cultural background on the practice of anaesthesia.
abstract: This paper describes the effect of an African cultural background on normal anaesthetic practice. Attitudes of African people to illness, hospital, pain and medicine are explained.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D000776:Anesthesiology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D044383:Black People; D003469:Culture; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D015030:Zimbabwe