Voodoo Illness

16 January 2009

journal article
case report
Published by Hindawi Limited in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Vol. 28 (1) , 11-17
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6163.1992.tb00356.x

Abstract

Healthcare providers must familiarize themselves with specific culture-bound syndromes and their manifestations in order to provide quality care to culturally diverse clients seeking healthcare services. Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).

Keywords

This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:

The use of orthodox and black American folk medicine
Advances in Nursing Science, 1982
Folk healing: a description and synthesis
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
Magical Medicine
Published by University of California Press ,1980
Culture, Illness, and Care
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1978
Voodoo Death: New Thoughts on an Old Explanation¹
American Anthropologist, 1974
Folk Medical Beliefs and Their Implications for Care of Patients
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1974
Root Work and Root Doctor
Nursing Forum, 1973
Hypnosis in the Treatment of the "Hexed" Patient
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1967
On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man
Psychosomatic Medicine, 1957
"Voodoo" Death
Psychosomatic Medicine, 1957