African medical pluralism /
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 perc...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington and Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
2017
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253025098 0253025095 0253024773 9780253024770 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
