Abstract
Cancer, stress, and death, as well as a broad range of health-impairing diseases, occur in Africa as elsewhere. Health has constituted for us, as it has for others, a fundamental sociocultural concern in our societies. For Africans, as for Europeans, “Man is not made up of disjointed anatomicities each functioning independently and subject to independent variation. The whole man is made up of the bios—Man and his external environment—and the inner (psychospiritual), man or logos.”(1) In Africa, as in all countries and continents, “good health entails a sound balance between these two. . . .”(2)
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Ekanem, E.E. (1986). The Biopsychosocial Way as a Clinical Mode for Handling Critical Disease Problems in Tropical West Africa. In: Day, S.B. (eds) Cancer, Stress, and Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9573-8_22
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