9780253025098

0253025095

9780253024770 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780253024916 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Project MUSE - UPCC 2017 Complete.

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Introduction / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent

Biomedicine and African healing

The value of secrets: pragmatic healers and proprietary knowledge / Stacey Langwick

Body and sunsum: stroke in Asante / William C. Olsen

Spirits and pills who are against children: medico-rituals and assisted reproductive technologies in a Tuareg couple's quest for parenthood / Susan J. Rasmussen

Science in the moral space of health and healing paradigms in western equatorial Africa / John M. Janzen

Medical pluralism revisted: a memoir / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

Symptoms and therapeutic pluralities

Wishful doing: journeying in a Nigerian medical landscape / Ulrika Trovalla

The individualization of illness: bewitchment and the mental in postcolonial Tanzania / Koen Stroeken

Ihahamuka-PTSD in postgenocidal Rwanda: culture, continuity and change in Rwandan therapeutics / Christopher C. Taylor

Hospital ethnography

Ear infections, malnutrition, and circuitous health care treatments in Zaria, Nigeria / Elisha Renne

Therapeutic eclecticism and cancer care in a Kenyan hospital ward / Benson A. Mulemi

Elusive paths, fluid care: seeking healing and protection in the Republic of Benin / Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell

Legitimate care, dangerous care, and childbirth in an urban African community / Claire Wendland

Afterword / Arthur Kleinman.

Medical anthropology > Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Traditional medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Medical care > Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Integrative medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Project Muse.