{"product_id":"african-medical-pluralism-hardback-9780253024770","title":"African Medical Pluralism (Hardback) 9780253024770","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican Medical Pluralism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam C. Olsen (Edited by), Carolyn Sargent (Edited by), Koen Stroeken (Contributions by), Claire Wendland (Contributions by), Arthur Kleinman (Contributions by), John M. Janzen (Contributions by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contributions by), Stacey A. Langwick (Contributions by), Carolyn Sargent (Contributions by), Christopher Taylor (Contributions by), Elisha P. Renne (Contributions by), Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Contributions by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contributions by), Benson Mulemi (Contributions by), James Leslie Kennell (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253024770\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 February 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 7 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.585 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent\u003cbr\u003eBiomedicine and African Healing:\u003cbr\u003e1. Stacey Langwick: \"The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge\"\u003cbr\u003e2. William C. Olsen: \"Body and Sunsum: Stroke in Asante\"\u003cbr\u003e3. Susan J. Rasmussen: \"Spirits and Pills Who Are Against Children: Medico-Rituals and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in a Tuareg Couple's Quest for Parenthood\"\u003cbr\u003e4. John M. Janzen: \"Science in the Moral Space of Health and Healing Paradigms in Western Equatorial Africa\"\u003cbr\u003e5. Brooke Grundfest Schoepf: \"Medical Pluralism Revisted: A Memoir\" \u003cbr\u003eSymptoms and Therapeutic Pluralities:\u003cbr\u003e6. Ulrika Trovalla: \"Wishful Doing: Journeying in a Nigerian Medical Landscape\"\u003cbr\u003e7. Koen Stroeken: \"The Individualization of Illness: Bewitchment and the Mental in Postcolonial Tanzania\"\u003cbr\u003e8. Christopher C. Taylor: \"Ihahamuka—PTSD in Postgenocidal Rwanda: Culture, Continuity and Change in Rwandan Therapeutics\" \u003cbr\u003eHospital Ethnography:\u003cbr\u003e9. Elisha Renne: \"Ear Infections, Malnutrition, and Circuitous Health Care Treatments in Zaria, Nigeria\"\u003cbr\u003e10. Benson A. Mulemi: \"Therapeutic Eclecticism and Cancer Care in a Kenyan Hospital Ward\" \u003cbr\u003e11.Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell: \"Elusive Paths, Fluid Care: Seeking Healing and Protection in the Republic of Benin\" \u003cbr\u003e12. Claire Wendland: \"Legitimate Care, Dangerous Care, and Childbirth in an Urban African Community\" \u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Arthur Kleinman\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525043843352,"sku":"9780253024770","price":63.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-medical-pluralism-hardback-9780253024770","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}