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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume covers much ground and gives a good orientation to readers who are totally new to the concept of medical pluralism and the range of healing modalities in Africa. I predict this book will be used widely in courses in anthropology, medical anthropology, African studies, and global health." -Paul Brodwin, author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry
Table of ContentsIntroduction by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
Biomedicine and African Healing:
1. Stacey Langwick: "The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge"
2. William C. Olsen: "Body and Sunsum: Stroke in Asante"
3. Susan J. Rasmussen: "Spirits and Pills Who Are Against Children: Medico-Rituals and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in a Tuareg Couple's Quest for Parenthood"
4. John M. Janzen: "Science in the Moral Space of Health and Healing Paradigms in Western Equatorial Africa"
5. Brooke Grundfest Schoepf: "Medical Pluralism Revisted: A Memoir"
Symptoms and Therapeutic Pluralities:
6. Ulrika Trovalla: "Wishful Doing: Journeying in a Nigerian Medical Landscape"
7. Koen Stroeken: "The Individualization of Illness: Bewitchment and the Mental in Postcolonial Tanzania"
8. Christopher C. Taylor: "Ihahamuka—PTSD in Postgenocidal Rwanda: Culture, Continuity and Change in Rwandan Therapeutics"
Hospital Ethnography:
9. Elisha Renne: "Ear Infections, Malnutrition, and Circuitous Health Care Treatments in Zaria, Nigeria"
10. Benson A. Mulemi: "Therapeutic Eclecticism and Cancer Care in a Kenyan Hospital Ward"
11.Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell: "Elusive Paths, Fluid Care: Seeking Healing and Protection in the Republic of Benin"
12. Claire Wendland: "Legitimate Care, Dangerous Care, and Childbirth in an Urban African Community"
Afterword by Arthur Kleinman
Index
