The walk without limbs: Searching for indigenous health knowledge in a rural context in South Africa [Internet]

Sections

• Copyright page
• Health and Veterinary Sciences domain editorial board at AOSIS
• Peer review declaration
• Research Justification
• Abbreviations, Boxes, Figures and Tables Appearing in the Text
• Notes on Contributors
• Declaration
• Introduction
• Section 1 Presentation of critical research findings that emerged from the PhD study: The walk without limbs
  • 1. Evolution of the book – Recognising the absence of limbs
  • 2. An epistemology on health and illness according to biomedical and indigenous health knowledge perspectives
  • 3. Women as healers and indigenous knowledge systems and its holders: An intertwined epistemological and ontological struggle for recognition
  • 4. Research methodology that drove the study
  • 5. Critical study outcomes and the proposed primary healthcare model
  • 6. Opting for a veil of secrecy – The silencing of indigenous health service seekers by healthcare providers in Bomvanaland
  • 7. The heavy price paid by the Bomvana in questioning the Western modernity script of civilisation
  • 8. Presenting the elite older Xhosa women healers of Bomvanaland in the Eastern Cape province
• Section 2 Translation and application of PhD critical research findings on the research site: The backward and forward movement – Trying to find our limbs
  • 9. Steps taken to translate critical research findings
  • 10. Bringing in a conversation in health and education: A missing link?
  • 11. Indigenous spirituality within formal health care practice
  • 12. Savings, investments and credit groups: A holistic approach to community upliftment
  • 13. Community engagement in KwaXanase: Moving from fear to pride and confidence
• References