The African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange / David Baronov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baronov, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--Africa.

Traditional medicine.

Ethnology--Africa.

Ethnology.

Medicine--Africa--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Africa--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that contemporary African medical systems-no less "biomedical" than Western medicine-in fact greatly enrich and expand the notion of biomedicine, reframing it as a global cultural form deployed across global networks of cultural exchange.The book analyzes biomedicine as a complex and

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Origins of African Biomedicine; 2 Dissecting Western Medicine; 3 Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission; 4 African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents; 5 African Biomedicine; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611973353

9781592139170

1592139175

9781281973351

1281973351

OCLC:

437247321