“The Yorùbá Indigenous Healthcare Delivery System: A Preliminary Study”
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2015-04-23
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Orimoogunje, O.C
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EBSU Journal of Society: A Publication of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki.
Abstract
This paper explores the rationality of the verbal arts in the indigenous healthcare delivery system and health-related issues in the pre and post-colonial era. By this, we mean that some areas such as the uses and functions of the Yorùbá verbal arts in health-related matters could be rationally explained, in an ethno-scientific manner. Therefore, our discussion centres on the Yorùbá verbal arts used in the prevention and cure of health-related problems such as infant mortality, unwanted pregnancy, prolonged labour, accident, robbery, embarrassment, depression, barrenness, etc. based on the origin of the invention of healthcare practice from time immemorial.