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Author Ndege, George O.

Title Health, state, and society in Kenya / George Oduor Ndege
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : maps
Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 10
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 10.
Contents The unsettling contact : epidemics, biomedicine, and the ideology of order -- In search of compromise : economy, labor, war, and related epidemics -- Careers in health and healing : competing visions of training and practice -- Politics, innovation, reform, and expansion -- Grappling with change in the age of transition and anxiety : decolonization, independence, and AIDS
Summary George Ndege provides an examination of the conflicts and compromises between Western biomedicine and African traditional therapies in colonial Kenya
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public health -- Kenya -- History
Social medicine -- Kenya -- History
Medical care -- Kenya -- History
Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Kenya -- History
Public Health -- history
Delivery of Health Care -- history
Disease Outbreaks -- history
Medicine, Traditional -- history
Social Medicine -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Imperialism -- Health aspects
Medical care
Public health
Social medicine
SUBJECT Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072000
Kenya https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007630
Subject Kenya
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781580466059
1580466052