Médecine traditionnelle africaine et médecine moderne conventionnelle étude d’un comparatisme thérapeutique des os, lecture de regard critique sur la médecine traditionnelle au gabon de simon-pierre ezéchiel mvoné-ndong.

Abstract

In “the metaphysical roots of disease”, the recurring therapeutically problem of comparing “traditional African medicine” and “conventional modern medicine”, or even opposing them, is still relevant. Thus, through a comparative therapeutically study of bone care in general, and particularly cases of treatment of fractures since Hippocrates, we rethink the therapeutic framework of each medicine to be placed in the philosophical wake of the ethics applied to "diseases of the musculoskeletal system”. This is a philosophical reflection on medical ethics, aimed at establishing a cognitive comparison of two osteopathic practices operating different rationalities in the same therapeutic logic aimed at reducing the handicaps of skeletal accidents. It is more a question of showing the interest shown in traditional medicine by the majority of African populations, because of its convincing results, although despised in the face of the revolutions in conventional medicine. Despite being considered a cultural practice, the undeniable fact is that the ancestral medical tradition is still sought after and still applied in the contemporary world dominated by the great scientific discoveries of orthopedics and technological biomedicine. It is this African knowledge, better this traditional medicine in general, and the care of fractured bones in particular, that this research intends to enhance and reconcile with the knowledge of conventional medicine. It is emphasized that African knowledge of traditional medicine should not be despised and abandoned in all its forms on the pretext of speculations on magic, witchcraft and religion thriving in unrealism. We should not downgrade the knowledge of local healers, initiated in traditional medicine, for the sole benefit of modern practices and theories qualified as techno-scientific, experimental knowledge in the sense of Claude Bernard. This work deals precisely with the question of traditional African and non-African conventional knowledge from the perspective of a conjunction rather than a disjunction. The epistemological thesis of Simon-Pierre Ezéchiel Mvone-Ndong allows us, through the illustration of Djiké, to understand the medical rationality of traditional medicine and that of modern medicine in Africa, in order to glimpse their dialogue with a view to elaboration of an “intercultural medicine