BODY MAPPING IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH

Abstract

Medical Anthropologist are always concerned with the different ways in which people within any culture gain, hold and use knowledge about bodily processes to make health policy and programmes more responsive to the felt needs of the people and to gain access to such knowledge a researcher need a competent technique. The most efficient is the body mapping where one can use it as a technique to gather information and concomitantly it can serve as an entry point towards the explanatory models which people had. This paper will discuss on the use of body mapping technique in reproductive health research.