The field of global mental health (GMH) has undergone profound changes over the past
decade. Outgrowing its earlier agenda it has performed a reflexive turn, broadened towards …

The practices of traditional and faith-based healers in low-and middle-income countries in
Africa and elsewhere have come under intense scrutiny in recent years owing to allegations …

While intellectual disability is experienced worldwide, with much greater rates in contexts of
poverty, relatively few studies on intellectual disability have been conducted in low-and …

There is an increasing interest in collaboration between biomedical services and traditional
and faith healers for mental health care. In this article, we briefly outline recent research in …

This book is about planning–but planning with a difference. A conventional idea of planning
might bring to mind goals and objectives–and 'future orientation'. 1 But let us imagine that …

Mental health in Ghana has always been a contentious issue due to its association with
supernatural forces, such as witchcraft. This has led to mental health being poorly …

One important ethical question in international genomics research relates to how a genetic
focus on disease or behaviour could impact perceptions of individual moral agency and …

Abstract An estimated 500 Central African refugee families have been resettled in the
Tampa Bay Area since 2002 (RPC, 2022). The cycles of trauma that they have endured …

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2013 and early 2022 in
Nzemaland, a rural border area in southwestern Ghana, this thesis focuses on a particular …

Background Over the years, a range of international stakeholders–largely from the global
north–have highlighted the possibility that genomic research may impact stigma, blame and …