Negotiating mistrust : patients and healers across traditional, Islamic, and biomedical health sectors of Niger / Scott M. Youngstedt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Youngstedt, Scott M., Author.

Series:

Contemporary ethnography http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/5a22806c-082d-4f6f-c2d1-0aadcc9a0674

Contemporary ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Niger--Niamey.

Medical care.

Traditional medicine--Niger--Niamey.

Traditional medicine.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam.

Medicine.

Integrative medicine--Social aspects--Niger--Niamey.

Integrative medicine.

Physician and patient--Niger--Niamey.

Physician and patient.

Trust--Social aspects--Niger--Niamey.

Trust.

Trust--Social aspects.

Niger.

Niger--Niamey.

Genre:

Ethnographies.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2026]

Summary:

"This book examines a wide diversity of patients and healers--and interactions between them--in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction

A brief history of medical pluralism in Niamey, 1900-2024

Heat-cold : the quest for balance in a turbulent world

Developing and perpetuating mistrust

Navigating medical mistrust and medical pluralism in Niger

Overcoming mistrust

Expressing doubts about COVID-19 and fear of Vaccinations in Niger

Conclusion. Taking mistrust seriously : living with uncertainty in chaotic times.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781512828825

1512828823

9781512828832

1512828831

OCLC:

1534573866

Publisher Number:

90104359175