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Markets of well-being : navigating health and healing in Africa /
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets for well-being. The chapters discuss how medical staff, patients and citizins navigate markets for health and healing.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | African dynamics ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material / Marleen Dekker and Rijk van Dijk
- Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa / Rijk van Dijk and Marleen Dekker
- Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeris / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
- Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana / Christine Böhmig
- Market forces threatening school feeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya / Dick Foeken , Wijnand Klaver , Samuel O. Owuor and Alice M. Mwangi
- Dashed hopes and missed opportunities: Malaria control policies in Kenya (1896-2009) / Kenneth Ombongi and Marcel Rutten
- The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa / Robert Thornton
- Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria / Walter E.A. van Beek
- The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness / Nadine Beckmann
- Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households / Marleen Dekker
- Can't buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo / André Leliveld , Corine 't Hart , Jérémie Gnimadi and Marleen Dekker
- Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk
- List of authors / Marleen Dekker and Rijk van Dijk.