TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsen,William C.
AU  - Sargent,Carolyn F.
TI  - African medical pluralism
SN  - 9780253024770 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - R733 .A365 2017
U1  - 615.0967 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Integrative medicine
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Medical anthropology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent --; Biomedicine and African healing --; The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge; Stacey Langwick --; Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante; William C. Olsen --; Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood; Susan J. Rasmussen --; Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa; John M. Janzen --; Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir; Brooke Grundfest Schoepf --; Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities --; Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape; Ulrika Trovalla --; The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania; Koen Stroeken --; Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics; Christopher C. Taylor --; Hospital ethnography --; Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria; Elisha Renne --; Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward; Benson A. Mulemi --; Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin; Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell --; Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community; Claire Wendland --; Afterword; Arthur Kleinman
ER  -