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This article analyzes the importance, the characteristics and the mechanics of the knowledge of women as manifested in the folk medecine of francophone Québécois families at the beginning of the 20th century. Attention is focused on the domestic sphere of activity. The material used in the analysis is drawn from a data base of some 4 000 medical receipts. Recent works dealing with the knowledge of women in folk healing practices, in Quebec and abroad, are presented and discussed. The ethnographic data is analyzed in an attempt to better understand the relationship between the roles played by women in rural society at the beginning of the century and the contents of the folk healing tradition. The numerous connections which can be established between the culinary and the therapeutic realms of activity are also studied in depth.
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AbstractIn analysing the relationships between vodou and illness in Haiti, vodou appears as both a site in the health seeking process and a health care system. Moreover, when its place within Haitian medical-religious pluralism is examined, it becomes apparent that vodou permeates the practices and knowledge of therapists. This article demonstrates the nuances of vodou's presence in the various therapeutic spaces that we studied in the Haitian countryside, within a plural medical-religious context. We propose considering vodou as a system of references and a repository of practices and meanings for all therapists in Haiti. Our research results suggest that, in Haiti, therapeutic spaces are permeable, indicating vodou's pervasiveness in Haitian society. As such, our research also fills some gaps in the understanding of Haitian medical-religious pluralism.
Keywords: Vonarx, vodou, Haïti, pluralisme médico-religieux, médecine créole, églises pentecôtistes, biomédecine, Vonarx, Vodou, Haiti, Medico-Religious Pluralism, Creole Medicine, Pentecostalist Churches, Biomedicine, Vonarx, vodú, Haití, pluralismo medico-religioso, medicina criolla, Iglesias pentecostistas, bio-medicina
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SummaryChallenges presented by women and by medical sociologists have been the cause of a two-way rupture in academic research. In analyzing health, sociology has gone beyond political economic critique, and has moved toward a cultural critique. To control their lives, women have repossessed their bodies, thereby presenting medical sociology with the problem of integrating life experience into research practices and with the necessity of creating a model for the social analysis of the body.
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