Psychiatric studies produced by Europeans during colonial period on African mental disorders contribute to a reflection over human sciences' normative and paradigms. Considering Foucault's statement that madness in modern ...

The belief that bodily health was closely tied to the virtues of the soul was a shared topic among clerics, religious, moralists - also among physicians -, which was why treating the ills of the flesh from the medicines ...

Background: Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional knowledge, can be understood as form of neo-colonialism. ...