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African medical pluralism / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Integrative medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Integrative medicine.
- Medical care--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Medical care.
- Traditional medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Traditional medicine.
- Medical anthropology--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Medical anthropology.
- Medicine, African Traditional.
- Integrative Medicine.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Africa South of the Sahara.
- Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, African Traditional.
- Integrative Medicine.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Africa South of the Sahara.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
- Biomedicine and African healing
- The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge / Stacey Langwick
- Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante / William C. Olsen
- Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood / Susan J. Rasmussen
- Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa / John M. Janzen
- Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
- Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities
- Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape / Ulrika Trovalla
- The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania / Koen Stroeken
- Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics / Christopher C. Taylor
- Hospital ethnography
- Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria / Elisha Renne
- Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward / Benson A. Mulemi
- Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin / Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell
- Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community / Claire Wendland
- Afterword / Arthur Kleinman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: African medical pluralism.
- ISBN:
- 9780253025098
- 0253025095
- Publisher Number:
- 99975599421
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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