African Medical Pluralism
By William C. Olsen (Editor), Carolyn Sargent (Editor), Koen Stroeken (Contribution by), Claire Wendland (Contribution by), Arthur Kleinman (Contribution by), John M. Janzen (Contribution by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contribution by), Stacey A. Langwick (Contribution by), Carolyn Sargent (Contribution by), Christopher Taylor (Contribution by), Elisha P. Renne (Contribution by), Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Contribution by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contribution by), Benson Mulemi (Contribution by), James Leslie Kennell (Contribution by)
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By William C. Olsen (Editor), Carolyn Sargent (Editor), Koen Stroeken (Contribution by), Claire Wendland (Contribution by), Arthur Kleinman (Contribution by), John M. Janzen (Contribution by), Susan J. Rasmussen (Contribution by), Stacey A. Langwick (Contribution by), Carolyn Sargent (Contribution by), Christopher Taylor (Contribution by), Elisha P. Renne (Contribution by), Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Contribution by), Ulrika Trovalla (Contribution by), Benson Mulemi (Contribution by), James Leslie Kennell (Contribution by)
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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...






















