{"product_id":"zvinorwadza-von-olov-dahlin","title":"«Zvinorwadza»","description":"Zvinorwadza, a very common formulation heard among patients in the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe, means «it is painful» or «it hurts». This book deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses two basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients’ life-worlds look like? Patients’ illness experiences are described with the word pain, anxiety and sometimes despair; their social situations are often marked by vulnerability, exposedness and insecurity which apply to both genders, but particulary to women; their help-seeking behaviour is characterised by pragmatism, complementarity and plurality; their conceptions about illnesses and aetiologies involve qualities of uncertainty, flexibility and multidimensionality; and, finally, patients’ treatment experiences can be depicted in three words: some experienced ease, others complete healing, while a significant group of the multi-episodical patients experienced non-deliverance. It is concluded that the phenomena illness and healing need to be regarded holistically and that it is of crucial importance to acknowledge patients’ own ideas concerning these issues.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783631395769\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBeing a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783631395769","offer_id":55033337643333,"sku":"9783631395769","price":94.35,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/aaf585c3-4d68-433b-af9a-3b9b891420fa.jpg?v=1781670046","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/zvinorwadza-von-olov-dahlin","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}