African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent by Peter Ikechukwu Osuji

Author:Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The ATM doctors employ an indigenous psychotherapeutic approach in the management of patient care. It was Plato (420 − 348 BC) who said of the practice of medicine in the West that,

As you ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this … is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians of Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part cannot be well unless the whole is well… And therefore, if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first thing. (Plato 1937, p. v; Dime 1995, pp. 82–83).

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