ABSTRACT
This selection examines explanatory models surrounding Ebola among people as well as healers in Uganda (see selection 26). It shows how different groups of people may interpret the causes of disease and the treatment of illness differently. The selection serves as a reminder not to assume that people outside the industrialized societies (or subpopulations within them) are “empty vessels” with faulty medical knowledge or none at all, who need only be taught the correct biomedical explanatory models to learn to best care for their health.
