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A century of magico-religious healing : the African, Ethiopian case (1900-1980s) / Assefa Balcha Negwo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Negwo, Assefa Balcha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine.
- History.
- Traditional medicine--Africa.
- Africa.
- Traditional medicine--Ethiopia--History.
- Medicine, African Traditional--history.
- Spiritual Therapies--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Ethiopia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, African Traditional--history.
- Spiritual Therapies--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Ethiopia.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, Inc., [2015]
- Contents:
- Ethiopian society in the early twentieth century
- Admission of religious students to the healing arts
- Learning church-based medical education
- Church-based healers during the Italian interlude (1935/6-1941)
- Biomedicine, bureaucratic challenges and the quest for alternative therapy in Ethiopia (1941-1974)
- The state of indigenous healing in the post-Italian period (1941-1974)
- The impact of literacy on indigenous medical knowledge
- The impact of the military regime on indigenous healers (1974 to the early 1980s)
- Recapping the past and the future of church-based medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781569024171
- 1569024170
- 9781569024188
- 1569024189
- OCLC:
- 897023917
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