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Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 /
In August 2004, South Africa officially legalized the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients' access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country's traditional healer...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio : Scottsville, South Africa :
Ohio University Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
2008.
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| Series: | New African histories series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom
- Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom
- Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91
- Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948
- African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948.