Medicine men of Africa : part I

Year Published: 1967

Creator: Philip Daly Geoff Mulligan Geoff Tookey David Prowitt Don Feldstein Ted Walter Alan Dykes Dr. Steven Black

Format: 16mm

Description: The effectiveness of the African medicine man or “witch doctor” has been a subject of much speculation among the lay public and professional medical men for many years. In this program a Western physician investigates the work of “witch doctors” in Nigeria. The viewer is shown actual “healing” sessions and sees the results of what many doctors believe is mass hypnosis induced in his patients by the “witch doctor.” Nigerian physicians and psychiatrists give their explanations of the healing phenomenon.

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