Med Trop (Mars). 1981 May-Jun; 41(3): 283-7.

[Cultural perception of epilepsy in Senegal (Cap-Vert and river district) (author's transl)]

Adotevi F, Stephany J.

The paper is the second part of a survey report about the social implications of epilepsy in Senegal. The study has been conducted by a team of four (2 nurses, 1 social worker and a resident of psychiatric hospital), visiting patients in remote countryside. At the occasion of these visits, enquiries were made among patients and their families, elders, notables, in order to draw a scheme of common perception of epilepsy, which is considered most frequently as a religious or magic mental affection.