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A century of magico-religious healing : the African, Ethiopian case (1900-1980s)
Title
A century of magico-religious healing : the African, Ethiopian case (1900-1980s) / Assefa Balcha Negwo.
ISBN
9781569024171
1569024170
9781569024188
1569024189
Publication
Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, Inc., [2015]
Physical Description
xvi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 23, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ethiopian society in the early twentieth century
Admission of religious students to the healing arts
Learning church-based medical education
Church-based healers during the Italian interlude (1935/6-1941)
Biomedicine, bureaucratic challenges and the quest for alternative therapy in Ethiopia (1941-1974)
The state of indigenous healing in the post-Italian period (1941-1974)
The impact of literacy on indigenous medical knowledge
The impact of the military regime on indigenous healers (1974 to the early 1980s)
Recapping the past and the future of church-based medicine.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Medicine, African Traditional - history.
History, 20th Century.
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