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The problem of money : African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana /
"Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, typical for neo-colonial states, and peopl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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| Colección: | Monographs in German history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Preface Chapter 1. 'New' and Enduring Social and Economic Formations Continuity With the Past or 'Tradition' ; 1.1 The Land and the People; 1.2 History, Politics and Religion; 1.3 A Bilateral People?; 1.4 The Local Scene Negotiating the Future and the Global Economy ; 1.5 Women in a Male-Oriented Society; 1.6 Women, the Household and the Economy Chapter 2. Powers of the Person ; 2.1 The Individual and the Sway of Maternal Kinship; 2.2 The Morality of Witchcraft and Medicines: The Contrast of Legitimacy and Gender; 2.3 Enchanted Modernity and Witchcraft Chapter 3.
- Basic Concepts of Health and Illness ; 3.1 Illness: The Environment, the Living and the Dead; 3.2 Common Illness; 3.3 Ideas about the Body, Heart, Stomach and Common Symptoms; 3.4 What is Illness?; 3.5 Diagnosing Symptoms; 3.6 Protection and the Occult Chapter 4. Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization ; 4.1 What is Medicine?; 4.2 Tim; 4.3 Images of Medicines; 4.4 Classification of Medicines; 4.5 Naming Medicines; 4.6 Plants, Western Pharmaceuticals and Islamic Medicines; 4.7 Treatment Choices: Magical and Non-Magical Medicines; 4.8 Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization; 4.9 A Note on the Provision of Medical Care in the Nineties Chapter 5.
- The Herbalist, Medical Pluralism and the Cultural Patterning of Illness ; 5.1 The Local Curer and His Plants; 5.2 The Cultural Construction of Medical Knowledge: Becoming a Herbalist; 5.3 Medical Pluralism in Dagomba; 5.4 Biopower and the Cultural Patterning of Illness; 5.5 Medical Knowledge and Medical Culture Chapter 6. Health, Wealth and Magic ; 6.1 Health, Wealth and Magic; 6.2 The Modernity of Divination: The Power of Lotteries Chapter 7. A Woman's Lot: the Practical Realities of Care ; 7.1 The Dominant Voice: Men's Control of Local Medicines; 7.2 The Structure of the Quest for Medicine: 'Begging for Medicine'; 7.3 Ideology and Practice: Women, the Future and Decision Making; 7.4 The Ethics of Care and the Female Strategy of Child Care Chapter 8.
- The Problem of Money: Money and Medicine ; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Wealth, Health and the Community; 8.3 Monetary and Non-Monetary Transactions in Dagomba; 8.4 Contexts of Curing or the Problem of Money in Medicine; 8.5 'Money Spoils the Medicine'; 8.6 The (Im)morality of Medicines: Medicine-Sellers and Drug Peddlers; 8.7 'Money Spoils the Medicine': Ideology and Practice; 8.8 'Money Spoils the Medicine' Revisited; 8.9 Healing and 'The Problem of Money' Conclusion Appendices ; 1. The Burden of Illness; 2. Patterns of Medicine Use References; Glossary; Index