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Epidemics
Studies from University of South Carolina have provided new data on epidemics
May 12th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "This article seeks to explore the nexus of religion and medicine in accounting for African and missionary responses to the 1918 influenza epidemic in Southern Rhodesia." "Africans' explanatory models drew on a much wider sphere - sacred, social and biological - than their missionary and colonial counterparts, and their experience of the affliction led to an epistemological rupture in these explanatory models, resulting in a crisis in faith. Missionaries' explanatory models derived primarily from biomedicine, but missionaries were highly strategic in emphasising the sacred nature of the epidemic when it came to the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-12)
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