title: Religiosity and health behaviour in Africa.
abstract: African medicine has in the past been misunderstood and misrepresented in Western scholarship--to the extent that medicine-men have been called 'witch-doctors'. In this article the author makes an attempt to show what is behind African medicine and to give it a positive interpretation.
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D003906:Developing Countries; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine