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African Medical Pluralism

Authors :
William C. Olsen
Carolyn Sargent
William C. Olsen
Carolyn Sargent
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9780253024770, 9780253024916, and 9780253025098
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
African Medical Pluralism
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
1475882