Del 30 - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in 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. Several chapters illustrate how the most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease and chape the possibilities of survival. Other discuss a variety of healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies, Muslim humoral medicine, and biomedicine as practiced in hospitals and dispensaries. The editors provide introductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic, and political phenomena.

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Utgivningsdatum1992-09-22
Mått152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt726 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieComparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Antal sidor472
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520066816

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MAPSFIGURESTABLESPREFACEPART I • INTRODUCTIONPART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICANPOPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease:Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina FasoDennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949A/egan Vaughan3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya,1880-1920Afarc H. Dawson4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa,1850-1950Randall AI. Packard5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health ServicesCommission in South AfricaShula A/arks and Neil AnderssonPART III· THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPRECOLONIAL MEDICINE6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into HausalandIsmail H. Abdalla7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western EquatorialAfrican TherapeuticsJohn M. Janzen8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central AfricaGloria WaiteCOLONIAL MEDICINE9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical AfricaPhilip D. Curtin10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania,1900-1945Terence 0. RangerTWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan TherapeuticsBernard Greenwood12. Causality of Disease among the SenufoNicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini13. A Modern History ofLozi TherapeuticsGwyn Prins14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South AfricaHarrietNgubane15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among theTabwa of ZaireChristopher Davis-Roberts16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing:Observations from HausalandMurray LastPOSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE17. The Social Production of Health in KenyaF. M. Mhuru18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra LeoneCarol P. MacCormackBIBLIOGRAPHY