„A sick person is only sick with regard to a certain idea of health“
(George Morel, Question d’homme: l’autre, Aubier-Montaigne 1977, p.97)
In our search for intercultural differences in the conceptions of disease, we travelled to Tanzania.
We met people with psychiatric illnesses, relatives, doctors, nurses, home care giver, psychiatrists, anthropologists, actors and taxi drivers. We read books and we listened. These are their stories … (to be continued)