Mw. C.A. Lans MSc : Creole veterinary medicine in Trinidad and Tobago

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11 Jun 2001 13:30
Unit: Wageningen University
Promotor: prof.dr. P. Richards (Technology and Agrarian Development)
Co Promotor: dr. A.J.J. van den Berg (UU) & dr. G. Brown (School of Veterinary Medicine, Trinidad and Tobago)

 Research in ethnoveterinary knowledge was conducted as one possible solution to the existing constraints in animal health care in Trinidad and Tobago. The first phase of the research involved data collection carried out for five months in 1995. This data collection can be divided into four parts: the school essay method; the group and individual interviews; the focus group workshops and the secondary literature review. In the second phase of the research, 1997 - 2000, the researcher worked through previously existing social networks in building a purposive sample, which minimised negative outcomes. The study results are divided into nine case studies, pigs, commercial poultry and gamecocks, ruminants and reproductive health, pet dogs and hunting dogs, horses and [human] ethnomedicine. A non-experimental validation of the ethnoveterinary medicines was undertaken to provide a guide to laboratory researchers as to which of these plants merit further investigation.
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