Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners

Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical PractitionersThis unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with Western care protocols. These long standing traditional vs. contemporary patient care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe were documented over eight years via one on one interviews with bonesetters, their patients, and in country orthopedic surgeons.

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