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In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947- (Autor, Editor ), Olsen, William C. (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Traditional medicine.
Medical care.
Medical anthropology.
Integrative medicine.
MEDICAL > Healing.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Medecine integrative > Afrique subsaharienne.
Integrative Medicine
Medical anthropology > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Traditional medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical care > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Integrative medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrique subsaharienne.
Africa South of the Sahara
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780253025098

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