African medical pluralism
(2017)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Indiana University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2017
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780253025098 (electronic bk.) MWT11842491, 0253025095 (electronic bk.) 11842491
LANGUAGE
English
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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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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