Sciences Sociales et Santé en Afrique : Questions Méthodologiques et Épistémologiques

Summary

Health issues have proved essential in the future of a social group. For greater efficiency, the health field deserves a reasoned and strategic take-over from the "inside". Africa has often emerged as a receptacle of methods transposed from the outside. In this continent with plural and multicultural contexts, "bottom-up" approaches are favored for collecting health data. The authors of this work militate precisely for "inside" and "from below" methods. Various fields have been revisited to (de) construct the methodological contours of medical epistemology resulting from schemes that are often poorly imported and poorly enforced. On the one hand, Ethics and Ethics deserve a contextualization on African soil. And on the other hand, the medical sciences require harmony and linkage to the social sciences. From this dual requirement, moving towards an adaptable model offers itself as the appropriate solution for this dialogue of sciences at the service of health in general and medical in particular.

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Sociologist and methodologist Sariette BATIBONAK is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate School of the Evangelical University of Cameroon. His research focuses on African epistemology; the media, the mediological, the spiritual health. "New" therapists in Cameroon and media market for divine healing in Cameroon are his recent books on the theme of health in Africa.

Moustapha Moncher NSANGOU holds a Ph.D in sociology of health. He is a researcher at the Center for the Development of Good Practices in Health (CDBPS-H) and an adjunct professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon. His research revolves around: sociology and anthropology of health; gender and development; health policies and systems in Africa.

Jean NZHIE ENGONO is a doctor in social anthropology and comparative sociology of the University of Paris-V-Sorbonne, professor and head of department of sociology of the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon. A member of several scientific associations, his research focuses more specifically on "African modernity" and the epistemology of social sciences.

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Title	:	Sciences Sociales et Santé en Afrique : Questions Méthodologiques et Épistémologiques
Author	:	Sariette BATIBONAK, Moustapha Moncher NSANGOU, Jean NZHIE ENGONO
Editor	:	Editions Cheikh Anta Diop
Collection	:	Collection Santé et Développement Humain
ISBN-13	:	978-9956-657-34-4
Language	:	French
Number of pages	:	386
Size	:	34 X 24 cm
Publication date	:	July 03, 2018
Price	:	Africa : 16 400 F.cfa / 25 € - Out of Africa : 22 960 F.cfa / 35 €
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