Fake Healing Claims for HIV and Aids in Malawi Traditional, Christian and Scientific / Klaus Fiedler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiedler, Klaus, Dr., author.

Series:

Mzuni texts ; no. 5.

Mzuni texts ; no. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quacks and quackery--Malawi.

Quacks and quackery.

AIDS (Disease)--Alternative treatment--Malawi.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Alternative treatment--Malawi.

HIV infections.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (50 pages).)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC). The book reveals the lack of substantive evidence to back such healing claims and the contradiction between the VMMCC claims and the consequences of those claims in sexual health and practice.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Traditional healing claims

3. Chambe : "healing the nations"

4. A comparison : mixed agency healing claims outside Malawi

5. Recent variants of multiple cure herbal drugs in Malawi

6. Faith healing HIV/AIDS

7. The Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-50).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

99960-45-21-8

OCLC:

973806281