The Social Basis of Health and Healing in AfricaSteven Feierman, John M. Janzen University of California Press, 22 sep 1992 - 487 pagina's 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. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICAN | 25 |
Nyasaland in 1949 | 71 |
Smallpox in Colonial Kenya | 90 |
Industrialization Rural Poverty and Tuberculosis in South Africa | 104 |
Industrialization Rural Health and the 1944 National Health Services | 131 |
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE | 163 |
Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland | 177 |
19001945 | 256 |
Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics | 285 |
Causality of Disease among the Senufo | 315 |
Gwyn Prins | 339 |
Harriet Ngubane | 366 |
Concepts of Illness and Transformation among | 376 |
Observations from Hausaland | 393 |
The Social Production of Health in Kenya | 409 |
Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial | 195 |
Gloria Waite | 212 |
Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa | 235 |
Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone | 426 |
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