African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange

David Baronov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College and is also the author of The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital and Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods.

• Acknowledgements 1. The Origins of African Biomedicine 2. Dissecting Western Medicine 3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission 4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents 5. African Biomedicine References Index

"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens." -Roderick Bush, St. John's University