African medical pluralism /
African medical pluralism /
edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent.
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2017.
- viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge / Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante / Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood / Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa / Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir / Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape / The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania / Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics / Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria / Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward / Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin / Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community / Afterword / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent -- Stacey Langwick -- William C. Olsen -- Susan J. Rasmussen -- John M. Janzen -- Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Ulrika Trovalla -- Koen Stroeken -- Christopher C. Taylor -- Elisha Renne -- Benson A. Mulemi -- Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell -- Claire Wendland -- Arthur Kleinman. Biomedicine and African healing -- Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities -- Hospital ethnography --
9780253024770 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253024773 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253024916 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253024919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2016045753
Integrative medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical care--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Traditional medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical anthropology--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
R733 / .A365 2017
615.0967
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge / Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante / Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood / Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa / Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir / Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape / The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania / Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics / Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria / Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward / Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin / Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community / Afterword / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent -- Stacey Langwick -- William C. Olsen -- Susan J. Rasmussen -- John M. Janzen -- Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Ulrika Trovalla -- Koen Stroeken -- Christopher C. Taylor -- Elisha Renne -- Benson A. Mulemi -- Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell -- Claire Wendland -- Arthur Kleinman. Biomedicine and African healing -- Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities -- Hospital ethnography --
9780253024770 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253024773 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253024916 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253024919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2016045753
Integrative medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical care--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Traditional medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical anthropology--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
R733 / .A365 2017
615.0967