1 septembre 2022
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Obrillant Damus, « La drépanocytose au prisme de la médecine créole haïtienne », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.17184/eac.9782813004666
Creole medicine is a care system with complex dimensions that plays an important role in the fight against sickle cell disease in Haiti. Regardless of the level of education, social origin and economic situation of sickle cell patients, they resort to traditional care in order to combat the symptoms of their chronic disease. Thanks to their ability to represent the latter, those excluded from public authorities and speech prevent themselves from abandoning themselves to despair, insofar as they place their representations at the service of action, reflecting the medical and linguistic pluralism characteristic of their society. What are the symptoms associated with sickle cell anemia? What are the concrete responses provided by patients to this disease in order to prevent and relieve its symptoms? How does Creole medicine contribute to the care of survivors? The main objective of this article is to show that popular medicine constitutes a fertile tool for acting within the limits of the representations of the disease in question.