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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.

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African Medical Pluralism
  • Author : William C. Olsen
  • Release : 27 February 2017
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • ISBN : 9780253025098
  • Genre : History
  • Total Page : 281 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 19,7 Mb

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