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How Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African culture

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"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens." -Roderick Bush, St. John's University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. The Origins of African Biomedicine
2. Dissecting Western Medicine
3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission
4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents
5. African Biomedicine
References
Index

The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 14/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9781592139163, 978-1592139163
      ISBN10: 1592139167

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African culture

      Trade Review
      "David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens." -Roderick Bush, St. John's University

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      1. The Origins of African Biomedicine
      2. Dissecting Western Medicine
      3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission
      4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents
      5. African Biomedicine
      References
      Index

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