The Social basis of health and healing in Africa

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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

（Comparative studies of health systems and medical care）

University of California Press, c1992

  • : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-472) and index

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: alk. paper ISBN 9780520066809

内容説明

Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. The 18 essays included in this book are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. The editors provide in troductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic and political phenomena. Several chapters illustrate how the most basic facts of everday life encourage the spread of disease and shape the possibilities of survival. Others discuss a variety of healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies, Muslim humoral medicine and bio-medicine as practiced in hospitals and dispensaries. Steven Feierman also wrote "Peasant Intellectuals" and John M. Manzen won the Wellcome prize and the medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute for "The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire".
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520066816

内容説明

Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. Several chapters illustrate how the most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease and chape the possibilities of survival. Other discuss a variety of healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies, Muslim humoral medicine, and biomedicine as practiced in hospitals and dispensaries. The editors provide introductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic, and political phenomena.

目次

MAPS FIGURES TABLES PREFACE PART I * INTRODUCTION PART II * THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICAN POPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE 1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso Dennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi 2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949 A/egan Vaughan 3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya, 1880-1920 Afarc H. Dawson 4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950 Randall AI. Packard 5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa Shula A/arks and Neil Andersson PART III* THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE PRECOLONIAL MEDICINE 6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland Ismail H. Abdalla 7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics John M. Janzen 8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa Gloria Waite COLONIAL MEDICINE 9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa Philip D. Curtin 10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945 Terence 0. Ranger TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE 11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics Bernard Greenwood 12. Causality of Disease among the Senufo Nicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini 13. A Modern History ofLozi Therapeutics Gwyn Prins 14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South Africa HarrietNgubane 15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire Christopher Davis-Roberts 16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing: Observations from Hausaland Murray Last POSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE 17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya F. M. Mhuru 18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone Carol P. MacCormack BIBLIOGRAPHY

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