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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Flint, Karen Elizabeth, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Scottsville, South Africa : Ohio University Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.
Collection:New African histories series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.