Medical pluralism and livestock health: ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
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- 作者：Mark A. Caudell ; Marsha B. Quinlan…
- 关键词：Ethnoveterinary medicine ; Medical pluralism ; Cultural consensus ; One Health ; Agropastoralists ; East Africa ; Tanzania ; Ethiopia
- 刊名：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：13
- 期：1
- 全文大小：573KB
- 刊物主题：Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Biodiversity; Ecology;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1746-4269
- 卷排序：13
文摘
BackgroundHuman and animal health are deeply intertwined in livestock dependent areas. Livestock health contributes to food security and can influence human health through the transmission of zoonotic diseases. In low-income countries diagnosis and treatment of livestock diseases is often carried out by household members who draw upon both ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) and contemporary veterinary biomedicine (VB). Expertise in these knowledge bases, along with their coexistence, informs treatment and thus ultimately impacts animal and human health. The aim of the current study was to determine how socio-cultural and ecological differences within and between two livestock-keeping populations, the Maasai of northern Tanzania and Koore of southwest Ethiopia, impact expertise in EVM and VB and coexistence of the two knowledge bases.