Marleen Dekker, PhD (2004), is a senior researcher in development economics at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. She has worked extensively on social networks and risk-coping strategies in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Togo.Rijk van Dijk, PhD (1992), is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. His research focuses on the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization and transnational connections.

• ContentsMaps viiTables viiFigures ixPhotographs ixBoxes x1 Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa 1Rijk van Dijk & Marleen Dekker2 Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeris 19Akinyinka Akinyoade & Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi3 Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana 46Christine Böhmig4 Market forces threatening school feeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya 79Dick Foeken, Wijnand Klaver, Samuel O. Owuor & Alice M. Mwangi5 Dashed hopes and missed opportunities: Malaria control policies in Kenya (1896-2009) 109Kenneth Ombongi & Marcel Rutten6 The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa 144Robert Thornton7 Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria 173Walter E.A. van Beek8 The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness 201Nadine Beckmann9 Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households 228Marleen Dekker10 Can’t buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo 255André Leliveld, Corine ‘t Hart, Jérémie Gnimadi & Marleen Dekker11 Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana 282Rijk van DijkList of authors 307