Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 / Karen E. Flint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Karen Elizabeth, 1968-

Series:

New African histories series.

New African histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--South Africa--History.

Medicine.

Traditional medicine--South Africa--History.

Traditional medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize 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 healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different r

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443026

082144302X

OCLC:

742512921