Xilala is only treated with a good hand

A study on the treatment of malnutrition in Mozambique

Bibliographic Data

ID5167069
AuthorsJanete Ismael Mabuie Gove (0000-0003-4799-499X, Ministério da Saúde, Moçambique; Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil), Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani (0000-0001-5698-7981, Universidade Federal do Paraná), Vitor Henrique De Siqueira Jasper (0000-0002-4517-3103, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Arune Estavela (0000-0003-4371-2449, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Moçambique), Islândia Bezerra (0000-0002-0513-3545, Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Year2021
Volume37
Issue7
Pagese00212320-e00212320
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311x00212320
PMID34406215
OpenAlexW3195780066
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2021000705016
LanguageEN
References cited17

In Mozambique old and new evils of body and spirit intertwine, thus allowing particular contours to modern life. Traditional diseases are reconfigured along the lines of a new thinking, and what Western medicine calls malnutrition is defined as xilala by the local traditional thinking. This study aimed to understand the point of view of both caregivers (mothers and grandmothers) of children participating in a Nutritional Rehabilitation Program and ethnomedicine experts, who find themselves entangled in a complex set of relationships through which different forms to comprehend body, health, and disease circulate. The supplement, as an object, has a life of its own and takes on new meanings when it leaves the hospital. When its use happens at home, it acquires a particularity: it becomes food. Thus, it ceases to be something inert and impersonal, which is a feature of standard medicine of the health institution. The local view centered on ethnomedicine is based on the certainty that a situation affecting a child cannot have a healing outcome if not by traditional medicine. Biomedical rationality erected from the confluence of the biological and technical sciences with their scientific postulates does not constitute the authorized discourse in this context

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ethnomedicine · Geography · Hierarchy · Institution · Malnutrition · Object (grammar) · Political science · Rationality · Set (abstract data type) · Social science · Sociology · Traditional medicine · African Studies and Ethnography · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Indigenous Health and Education · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology

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