African Medicine: A Spirit Science Out of the Shadows

In this work, Dr. Finch explores the mystery surrounding African Medicine -- from its earliest documented origins in ancient Egypt, through the ceremonies and traditional medicine practitioners that are in Africa today. African medicine is truly a "spirit" science because its holistic approach to healing means that the physicians work with the individual's physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects, with the physicians themselves working through different realms or levels of existence. In his Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey of healers in Fatick, Senegal, (included as an appendix), Dr. Finch validates the observations and comments he has researched in his essays. While not a comprehensive account of all of African medicine's long history, this book serves as an introduction to a complex, and often misunderstood topic. Important concepts that Dr. Finch discusses in this work: ¿Medical traditions and principles originating in ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley that are connected