Pino Schirripa Bücher

The book offers a critical analysis of the medication landscape in Ethiopia, focusing on the interplay between local politics, financial resources, and social dynamics. It explores how neoliberal beliefs influence the accessibility and acceptance of various treatments, highlighting disparities in the distribution and production of medications. Through this lens, the author sheds light on the complexities that shape healthcare in the region.

In medical anthropology, "medical system" refers to all the healing practices, therapeutic knowledge, and traditions that, in a specific social context, people can use in order to cope with health problems. It refers as well to all the social actors involved: policy makers, health professionals, healers, priests, patients, and their family. Starting from this perspective, this book presents the first results of an ethnographic research which was carried out in Tigray (the northernmost of the nine ethnic regions of Ethiopia), between 2007 and 2008. It analyzes, in the social context of Mekelle (the capital of Tigray), the different healing practices and therapeutic traditions, as well as the strategies of the actors acting in the social arena. It also explores the health care seeking behaviors of the patients in a context characterized by social suffering and inequalities. (Series: Mekelle University Social Science Series - Vol. 1)