| African Medical Pluralism Contributor(s): Olsen, William C. (Editor), Sargent, Carolyn (Editor), Stroeken, Koen (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0253024773 ISBN-13: 9780253024770 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Healing - History | Africa - General - Medical | Pharmacology |
| Dewey: 615.096 |
| LCCN: 2016045753 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts. |