title: [Cultural perception of epilepsy in Senegal (Cap-Vert and river district) (author's transl)].
abstract: The paper is the second part of a survey report about the social implications of epilepsy in Senegal. The study has been conducted by a team of four (2 nurses, 1 social worker and a resident of psychiatric hospital), visiting patients in remote countryside. At the occasion of these visits, enquiries were made among patients and their families, elders, notables, in order to draw a scheme of common perception of epilepsy, which is considered most frequently as a religious or magic mental affection.
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D011639:Public Opinion; D012675:Senegal; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013140:Spiritualism
vernacular_title: Représentations culturelles de l'épilepsie au Sénégal (région du Cap-Vert et du fleuve).