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Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 539-551 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105307076240
© 2007 SAGE Publications

Health Psychology in African Settings

A Cultural-psychological Analysis

Glenn Adams

University of Kansas, USA, adamsg{at}ku.edu

Phia S. Salter

University of Kansas, USA

African settings provide an important context in which to examine the relationship between cultural beliefs and health. First, research in African settings helps illuminate the sociocultural grounding of health and illness: the idea that beliefs play a constitutive role in the experience of distress. Second, research in African settings helps to illuminate the cultural grounding of health sciences: the idea that theory and practice reflect particular constructions of reality. We examine these ideas in the context of three research examples: the prominent experience of personal enemies; epidemic outbreaks of genital-shrinking panic; and fears about sabotage of vaccines in immunization campaigns.

Key Words: enemyship • genital-shrinking panic • health beliefs • mass psychogenic illness • polio vaccination


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