دورية أكاديمية
Rights as Relationships: Collaborating with Faith Healers in Community Mental Health in Ghana.
العنوان: | Rights as Relationships: Collaborating with Faith Healers in Community Mental Health in Ghana. |
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المؤلفون: | Read UM; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London, London, UK. ursula.read@kcl.ac.uk. |
المصدر: | Culture, medicine and psychiatry [Cult Med Psychiatry] 2019 Dec; Vol. 43 (4), pp. 613-635. |
نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
اللغة: | English |
بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Kluwer Academic Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 7707467 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-076X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0165005X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Cult Med Psychiatry Subsets: MEDLINE |
أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Original Publication: Dordrecht, Boston, Reidel. |
مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Community Mental Health Services* , Faith Healing* , Health Personnel* , Intersectoral Collaboration* , Religion and Medicine*, Human Rights Abuses/*prevention & control , Mental Disorders/*therapy, Adult ; Ghana ; Humans |
مستخلص: | This paper explores the ways in which mental health workers think through the ethics of working with traditional and faith healers in Ghana. Despite reforms along the lines advocated by global mental health, including rights-based legislation and the expansion of community-based mental health care, such healers remain popular resources for treatment and mechanical restraint and other forms of coercion commonplace. As recommended in global mental health policy, mental health workers are urged to form collaborations with healers to prevent human rights abuses and promote psychiatric alternatives for treatment. However, precisely how such collaborations might be established is seldom described. This paper draws on ethnographic research to investigate how mental health workers approach working with healers and the moral imagination which informs their relationship. Through an analysis of trainee mental health workers' encounters with a Prophet and his patients, the paper reveals how mental health workers attempt to negotiate the tensions between their professional duty of care, their Christian faith, and the authority of healers. I argue that, rather than enforcing legal prohibitions, mental health workers seek to avoid confrontation and manouver within existing hierarchies, thereby preserving sentiments of obligation and reciprocity within a shared moral landscape and established forms of sociality. |
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معلومات مُعتمدة: | PTA-031-2005-00036 Economic and Social Research Council; 203376/Z/16/Z United Kingdom WT_ Wellcome Trust; 340510 International ERC_ European Research Council |
فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Collaboration; Community mental health; Ghana; Human rights; Traditional and faith healing |
تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20191116 Date Completed: 20200406 Latest Revision: 20200408 |
رمز التحديث: | 20240628 |
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC6858296 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11013-019-09648-3 |
PMID: | 31729688 |
قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
تدمد: | 1573-076X |
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DOI: | 10.1007/s11013-019-09648-3 |