African medical pluralism
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African medical pluralism
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
African medical pluralism
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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
Target audience
adult
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