African Medical Pluralism

African Medical Pluralism
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780253025098
ISBN-13 : 0253025095
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Book Synopsis African Medical Pluralism by : William C. Olsen

Download or read book African Medical Pluralism written by William C. Olsen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.


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