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Endogenous knowledge: : research trails
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ISBN: 2869780400 2869780419 9782869780415 9782869780408 Year: 1997 Publisher: Dakar: CODESRIA,

East African doctors : a history of the modern profession
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ISSN: 0065406X ISBN: 0521632722 9780521632720 Year: 1998 Volume: 95 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Principles of medicine in Africa
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ISBN: 052180616X 9780521806169 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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For students of medicine and those who practice in the front-line of medicine in Africa, this fully revised edition combines classical internal medicine with a rich understanding of the major influences on health and disease in Africa. It puts disease into the context of family and culture and is not afraid to address the effects of inequality on health and the problems of limited resources for health care. There is a much expanded section on non-communicable diseases as well as comprehensive accounts of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major infections in the continent. Forward-looking and evidence-based, this new edition reflects the emergence of new diseases and health risks in the region. Complied by the foremost international authorities, this is the one essential text for the medical student, medical officer, or postgraduate student wanting the most complete and up-to-date reference book on medicine in Africa.

The social basis of health and healing in Africa
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ISBN: 0520066812 0520066804 9780520066809 9780520066816 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

Physicians, colonial racism, and diaspora in West Africa
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ISBN: 0813020115 9780813020112 0813014328 Year: 1996 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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The practice of African medicine is ancient - the source, in fact, of a great deal of Western medical knowledge from the Middle Ages onward. Until the close of the nineteenth century, African and West Indian physicians were able to work freely to protect the health of Africans and Europeans alike in West Africa. In 1901, however, when colonialism - and pseudoscientific racism - were in full force, British administrative action brought about an era of restrictions and segregation, a time of the "closed shop," as British middle-class policy makers described it in the 1950s. Even African physicians trained in the United States and the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries were unwelcome in their countries of origin upon their return home. This book discusses the role of African doctors in colonial state and society, the emergence of Africa's modern medical service, and the contribution of African physicians to an understanding of African diseases and their treatment. It also deals with traditional African medicine, beginning in Egypt 3,000 years ago. Historians and social scientists specializing in West African history, and African historians in general - especially those interested in medicine - will find the book essential.


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The professionalisation of African medicine
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ISBN: 071901851X 9780719018510 Year: 1986 Volume: 1 Publisher: Manchester: Manchester University press,

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Sociology of health --- Africa --- Traditional medicine --- Societies, etc --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Health Services. --- Medicine, Traditional. --- Societies, Medical. --- Medicine, Primitive --- -Traditional medicine --- -Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Medical Societies --- Medical Society --- Society, Medical --- Indigenous Medicine --- Primitive Medicine --- Traditional Medicine --- Folk Medicine --- Folk Remedies --- Home Remedies --- Medicine, Folk --- Medicine, Indigenous --- Folk Remedy --- Home Remedy --- Remedies, Folk --- Remedies, Home --- Remedy, Folk --- Remedy, Home --- Materia Medica --- Nostrums --- Pharmacognosy --- Plants, Medicinal --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Service, Health --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- -Congresses --- Congresses --- Africa. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Health Services --- Medicine, Traditional --- Societies, Medical --- Societies, etc. --- congresses. --- Traditional Pulse Diagnosis --- -Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- -Medical Societies --- Ethnic medicine --- Sociologie van de gezondheid --- Afrika --- Traditional Medicine Practitioners --- Traditional medicine - Africa - Congresses --- Traditional medicine - Africa - Societies, etc - Congresses

Curing their ills: colonial power and African illness
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ISBN: 0745607810 0745607802 9780745607818 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

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Medicine --- Colonies --- History --- 19th century. --- history --- 20th century. --- Colonies. --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- History, 20th Century. --- Political Systems --- -Colonies --- -Medicine --- -Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 20th Century --- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. --- History, Twentieth Century --- Medical History, 20th Cent. --- Medicine, 20th Cent. --- 20th Century History --- 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 20th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 20th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 20th --- Century Histories, Twentieth --- Century History, 20th --- Century History, Twentieth --- Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 20th Century --- Histories, Twentieth Century --- History, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- history. --- -20th century --- Africa. --- -Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- -20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- Clinical sciences --- 20th century --- History, 20th Century --- History&delete& --- 19th century --- history&delete& --- Health Workforce --- Medicine - Africa - History - 19th century. --- Medicine - Africa - history - 20th century. --- Colonies - Africa. --- Medicine - Great Britain - Colonies.


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Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa : transnational health and healing
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ISBN: 9780253357090 9780253223685 9780253005328 0253005329 1283608677 9786613921123 9781283608671 0253357098 0253223687 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press,

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of

Ngoma : discourses of healing in Central and Southern Africa
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ISBN: 0520072650 9786612356407 0520910850 1282356402 0585129320 9780520910850 9780585129327 9781282356405 9780520072657 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Ngoma, in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms and also the common elements of "doing ngoma. "Drawing on his recent field research in Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Mbabane, and Capetown, Janzen reveals how ngoma transcends national and social boundaries. Spoken and sung discourses about affliction, extended counseling, reorientation of the self or household, and the creation of networks that link the afflicted, their kin, and their healers are all central to ngoma-and familiar to Western self-help institutions as well. Students of African healing and also those interested in the comparative and historical study of medicine, religion, and music will find Ngoma a valuable and thought-provoking book.

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Medicine, Traditional --- Mental Healing --- Healing --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites et cérémonies --- Africa, Central --- Africa, Southern --- Healing - Africa, Southern. --- Traditional medicine-- Africa, Southern. --- Traditional medicine --- Ceremonial Behavior --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Complementary Therapies --- Social Behavior --- Spiritual Therapies --- Culture --- Behavior --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Anthropology --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Folklore --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- -Healing --- -Rites and ceremonies --- -Traditional medicine --- -Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Curing (Medicine) --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africa, Central. --- Africa, Southern. --- -Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Rites et cérémonies --- Ethnic medicine --- Mental Healing. --- africa. --- african studies. --- anthropology. --- bantu. --- bone throwing. --- capetown. --- central africa. --- dance. --- dar es salaam. --- disease. --- divination. --- drum. --- ethnography. --- folk belief. --- folk medicine. --- folklore. --- healers. --- healing cults. --- healing. --- illness. --- kinshasa. --- kinship. --- mbabane. --- medicine. --- music. --- ngoma. --- nonfiction. --- performance. --- performing arts. --- possession. --- religion. --- rite. --- ritual healing. --- social science. --- sociology. --- song. --- south africa. --- southern africa. --- spirits. --- tradition.

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