New biomedicine research from University of Sussex, Department of Anthropology outlined

Researchers detail in 'New therapeutic landscapes in Africa: parental categories and practices in seeking infant health in the Republic of Guinea,' new data in biomedicine. "In considering African health care practice, it is usual to draw strong distinctions between biomedical and traditional practices, and between public and private health institutions. Whilst distinctions between traditional and biomedical, and between public and private medicine make sense from the vantage point of health professionals, we question how far these distinctions are pertinent in shaping health-seeking behaviour given experience of them," scientists in the United Kingdom report.

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