Health, State and Society in Kenya : Faces of Contact and Change /

George Ndege provides an examination of the conflicts and compromises between Western biomedicine and African traditional therapies in colonial Kenya.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ndege, George O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Imperialism > Health aspects > Kenya > History.
Medical care > Kenya > History.
Social medicine > Kenya > History.
Public health > Kenya > History.
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Sozialmedizin
Medizinische Versorgung
Geschichte
Social medicine.
Public health.
Medical care.
Imperialism > Health aspects.
public health.
folk medicine.
medical history.
health policy.
colonialism.
United Kingdom.
Kenya.
Social Medicine > history.
Medicine, Traditional > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Delivery of Health Care > history.
Public Health > history.
Kenia.
Kenia
Kenya > History > 1895-1963.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The unsettling contact : epidemics, biomedicine, and the ideology of order
  • In search of compromise : economy, labor, war, and related epidemics
  • Careers in health and healing : competing visions of training and practice
  • Politics, innovation, reform, and expansion
  • Grappling with change in the age of transition and anxiety : decolonization, independence, and AIDS.

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