African Medical Pluralism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Olsen, William C.; Sargent, Carolyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253025098
• Artikelnr.: 47860690

Autorenporträt

edited by William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, with contributions by Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, John M. Janzen, Susan J. Rasmussen, Stacey A. Langwick, Carolyn Sargent, Christopher Taylor, Elisha P. Renne, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, Ulrika Trovalla

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
Biomedicine and African Healing:
1. Stacey Langwick: "The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and
Proprietary Knowledge"
2. William C. Olsen: "Body and Sunsum: Stroke in Asante"
3. Susan J. Rasmussen: "Spirits and Pills Who Are Against Children:
Medico-Rituals and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in a Tuareg Couple's
Quest for Parenthood"
4. John M. Janzen: "Science in the Moral Space of Health and Healing
Paradigms in Western Equatorial Africa"
5. Brooke Grundfest Schoepf: "Medical Pluralism Revisted: A Memoir"
Symptoms and Therapeutic Pluralities:
6. Ulrika Trovalla: "Wishful Doing: Journeying in a Nigerian Medical
Landscape"
7. Koen Stroeken: "The Individualization of Illness: Bewitchment and the
Mental in Postcolonial Tanzania"
8. Christopher C. Taylor: "Ihahamuka-PTSD in Postgenocidal Rwanda: Culture,
Continuity and Change in Rwandan Therapeutics"
Hospital Ethnography:
9. Elisha Renne: "Ear Infections, Malnutrition, and Circuitous Health Care
Treatments in Zaria, Nigeria"
10. Benson A. Mulemi: "Therapeutic Eclecticism and Cancer Care in a Kenyan
Hospital Ward"
11.Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell: "Elusive Paths, Fluid Care:
Seeking Healing and Protection in the Republic of Benin"
12. Claire Wendland: "Legitimate Care, Dangerous Care, and Childbirth in an
Urban African Community"
Afterword by Arthur Kleinman
Index