The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-06680-9 (ISBN)
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Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. The 18 essays included in this book are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. The editors provide in troductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic and political phenomena. Several chapters illustrate how the most basic facts of everday life encourage the spread of disease and shape the possibilities of survival. Others discuss a variety of healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies, Muslim humoral medicine and bio-medicine as practiced in hospitals and dispensaries. Steven Feierman also wrote "Peasant Intellectuals" and John M. Manzen won the Wellcome prize and the medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute for "The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire".
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PREFACE
PART I • INTRODUCTION
PART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICAN
POPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease:
Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso
Dennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi
2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949
A/egan Vaughan
3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya,
1880-1920
Afarc H. Dawson
4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa,
1850-1950
Randall AI. Packard
5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services
Commission in South Africa
Shula A/arks and Neil Andersson
PART III· THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA:
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
PRECOLONIAL MEDICINE
6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland
Ismail H. Abdalla
7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial
African Therapeutics
John M. Janzen
8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa
Gloria Waite
COLONIAL MEDICINE
9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa
Philip D. Curtin
10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania,
1900-1945
Terence 0. Ranger
TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE
11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics
Bernard Greenwood
12. Causality of Disease among the Senufo
Nicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini
13. A Modern History ofLozi Therapeutics
Gwyn Prins
14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South Africa
HarrietNgubane
15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the
Tabwa of Zaire
Christopher Davis-Roberts
16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing:
Observations from Hausaland
Murray Last
POSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE
17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya
F. M. Mhuru
18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone
Carol P. MacCormack
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.10.1992 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; 30 |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 953 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-06680-4 / 0520066804 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-06680-9 / 9780520066809 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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