Title The Social basis of health and healing in Africa / edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992] ©1992

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Description xviii, 487 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Series Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; no. 30 Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; no. 30 Contents Godly medicine : the ambiguities of medical mission in southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945 / Terence O. Ranger -- Cold or spirits? : ambiguity and syncretism in Moroccan therapeutics / Bernard Greenwood -- Causality of disease among the Senufo / Nicole Sindzingre and Andras Zempléni -- A modern history of Lozi therapeutics / Gwyn Prins -- Clinical practice and organization of indigenous healers in South Africa / Harriet Ngubane -- Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa : concepts of illness and transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire / Christopher Davis-Roberts -- The importance of knowing about not knowing : observations from Hausaland / Murray Last -- The social production of health in Kenya / F.M. Mburu -- Health care and the concept of legitimacy in Sierra Leone / Carol P. MacCormack The demographic reproduction of health and disease : colonial Central African Republic and contemporary Burkina Faso / Dennis D. Cordell, Joel W. Gregory, and Victor Piché -- Famine analysis and family relations : Nyasaland in 1949 / Megan Vaughan -- Socioeconomic change and disease : smallpox in colonial Kenya, 1880-1920 / Marc H. Dawson -- Industrialization, rural poverty, and tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950 / Randall M. Packard -- Industrialization, rural health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa / Shula Marks and Neil Andersson -- Diffusion of Islamic medicine into Hausaland / Ismail H. Abdalla -- Ideologies and institutions in precolonial western equatorial African therapeutics / John M. Janzen -- Public health in precolonial east-central Africa / Gloria Waite -- Medical knowledge and urban planning in colonial tropical Africa / Philip D. Curtin Analysis Africa Health services Africa Health services Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-472) and index Subject Healing -- Africa. Medical anthropology -- Africa. Social medicine -- Africa. Author Feierman, Steven, 1940- Janzen, John M. Joint Committee on African Studies. LC no. 90044243 ISBN 0520066804 (alk. paper) 0520066812 (paperback: alk. paper)

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