Healing Borders and the Mapping of Referral Systems: Across the Territorial Spaces of African Healing Shrines, Christian Prayerhouses, and Hospitals

The outbreak of COVID 19 and other global pandemics readily shows the importance of ethno-cultural channels of communication. However, modern discourses on medical referrals have narrowly focused their attention on the diverse challenges of referral services in biomedical establishments, but have ge...

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Main Author: Michael, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-26
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nigeria / Ghana / Recommendation / Network / Medical facility / Alternative medicine / Healer
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BS Traditional African religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
Further subjects:B Christian prayerhouses
B Hospitals
B Covid-19
B Referral
B medical pluralism
B African healing shrines
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