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Title The Context of medicines in developing countries : studies in pharmaceutical anthropology / edited by Sjaak van der Geest and Susan Reynolds Whyte
Published Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1988]
©1988

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Description xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Culture, illness, and healing ; v. 12
Culture, illness, and healing ; v. 12
Contents Medicines in context: an introduction / S.R. Whyte and S. van der Geest -- Commercial pharmaceutical medicine and medicalization: a case study from El Salvador / A. Ferguson -- Traditional practioners and Western pharmaceuticals in Sri Lanka / I. Wolffers -- Medicines and rural health services: an experiment in the Dominican Republic / A. Ugalde and N. Homedes -- Buying drugs in Addis Ababa: a quantitative analysis / H. Kloos -- 'Casi como doctor': pharmacists and their clients in a Mexican Urban context / K. Logan -- The articulation of formal and informal medicine distribution in South Cameroon / S. van der Geest -- The rise of the modern jamu industry in Indonesia: a preliminary overview / A.F. Afdhal and R.L. Welsch --
Culture and pharmaceuticals: some epistemological observations of pharmacological systems in ancient Europe and medieval China / P.U. Unschuld -- The use of herbal and biomedical pharmaceuticals on Mauritius / L.K. Sussman -- The power of medicines in East Africa / S.R. Whyte -- Traditional medication at pregnancy and childbirth in Madura, Indonesia / A. Niehof -- The reinterpretation and distribution of Western pharmaceuticals: an example from the Mende of Sierre Leone -- Cultural meanings of oral rehydration salts in Jamaica / C. MacCormack and A. Draper -- Penicillin: an acient Ayurvedic medicine / R. Burghart -- Cultural constructions of efficiency / N.L. Etkin -- Pharmaceutical anthropology: perspectives for research and application / S. van der Geest
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Drugs -- Developing countries.
Materia medica -- Developing countries.
Medical anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies.
Medical anthropology.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Developing countries.
Social medicine.
Author Geest, Sjaak van der, 1943-
Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
LC no. 88003273
ISBN 155608059X