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Parution - Health System, Sickness and Social Suffering in Mekelle (Tigray -  Ethiopia) Pino Schirripa (Ed.), Health System, Sickness and Social Suffering  in Mekelle (Tigray - Ethiopia), Lit Verlag, Mekelle  University Social Science Series, 2011, 152 p.In medical anthropology "medical system" refers to all the healing   practices, therapeutic knowledge and traditions that in a specific   social context people can use in order to cope with health problems. It   refers as well to all the social actors involved: health professionals,   healers, priests, patients and their kin, as well as policy makers.Starting from this perspective, this book presents the first  results  of an ethnographic research, which the authors carried out in  Tigray  between 2007 and 2008. It analyses, in the social context of  Mekelle -  the capital town of Tigray -, the different healing practices  and  therapeutic traditions, as well as the strategies of the actors  acting  in the social arena. It also explores the traditional  nosologies, and  the health care seeking behaviours of the patients in a  context  characterised by social suffering and inequalities. ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿