The Social Representations Of Traditional Medicine In Algeria

Résumé: Abstract: The demand for traditional treatment and its practice is a profession and is usually popular in Algeria, but it did not take its true size due to lack of recognition by many, but in reality the various segments of society still resort to it in treating their health problems and hundreds or thousands of traditional healers are active without a license or legal accreditation Their popular support and social recognition that it enjoys, especially since the profession has been inherited by many, and the aspirants and scholars have also contributed to a recovery despite the lack of competencies and under this circumstance traditional medicine remains subject to randomness, individual discretion and the absence of medical control, which makes the whole matter left to mess and chaos. But the factor of need and trust remains behind the Algerians’ appetite for traditional medicine. On the other hand, we see that in Algerian society, traditional medicine is practiced according to different cultures. Therefore, in its practice, patterns of local culture appear for each region. In addition, the resort to traditional treatment is determined in light of a set of considerations from the social religious beliefs inherited from the ancestors. This means that the social development of the nature of the disease determines the behavior of individuals in the manner of treatmen in this regard, we try to clarify our vision for this work in order to develop a theoretical sociological conception about traditional medicine in Algeria and its social representations in reality, which are considered the embodiment of belief behavior and the firm folklore through which we can prove its importance and social status.

Publié dans la revue: مجلة العلوم القانونية والاجتماعية