[Male sexuality and pathologies in the traditional medicine of Akan (Ghana): a discussion about kooko].
The paper discusses a pathology, known in Ghana with the name of kooko. According to Akan medicine, the disease is a symptom of a social and cosmic disorder, the consequence of a divine punishment. Kooko is a red protuberance, index of a very serious disease, appearing all over the body, in the brain, ears, uterus, anus or penis. In the last case, kooko causes increasing sexual weakness.
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Università di Perugia, I. pinoschirripa@tiscali.it
D004194:Disease; D005869:Ghana; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016488:Medicine, African Traditional / Q000266:history*; D019529:Sexuality / Q000266:history*