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African medical pluralism /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington and Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
- Biomedicine and African healing
- The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge / Stacey Langwick
- Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante / William C. Olsen
- Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood / Susan J. Rasmussen
- Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa / John M. Janzen
- Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
- Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities
- Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape / Ulrika Trovalla
- The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania / Koen Stroeken
- Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics / Christopher C. Taylor
- Hospital ethnography
- Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria / Elisha Renne
- Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward / Benson A. Mulemi
- Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin / Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell
- Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community / Claire Wendland
- Afterword / Arthur Kleinman.