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Markets of well-being : navigating health and healing in Africa / edited by Marleen Dekker, Rijk van Dijk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dekker, M.
- Series:
- African dynamics ; 9.
- African dynamics ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics--Africa.
- Medical economics.
- Medical care--Africa--Marketing.
- Medical care.
- Marketing.
- Africa South of the Sahara.
- Africa.
- Medical Subjects:
- Africa South of the Sahara.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drawing on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets for well-being. The chapters discuss how medical staff, patients and citizins navigate markets for health and healing.
- Contents:
- Markets of Well-being; Contents; 1 Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa; 2 Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeria; 3 Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana; 4 Market forces threatening schoolfeeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya; 5 Dashed hopes and missedopportunities: Malaria controlpolicies in Kenya (1896-2009); 6 The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa
- 7 Medicinal knowledge and healingpractices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria8 The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness; 9 Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households; 10 Can't buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo; 11 Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana; List of authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Markets of well-being.
- ISBN:
- 9789004201286
- 9004201289
- OCLC:
- 817584302
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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