The Professionalisation of African Medicine

by Murray Last (Editor), G. L. Chavunduka (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1986, this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine, and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367000578
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/24/2020
Series:	African Seminars: Scholarship from the International African Institute
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword. Introduction: The Professionalisation of African Medicine: Ambiguities and Definitions Murray Last Part 1: Professionalisation Associations and Government 1. The Organisation of Traditional Medicine in Zimbabwe 2. Traditional Health Care in Botswana 3. Assocations and Healers: Atttitudes Towards Collboration in Tanzania 4. Government, Associations and the University: Liaison in Malawi 5. The Professionalisation of Indigenous Medicine: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Zambia and 6. Prospects for the Professionalisation of Indigenous Midwifery in Benin 7. The Articulation of Western and Traditional systems of Health Care Part 2: Professional Knowledge and Its Control 8. The Training of Traditional Healers in Mashonaland 9. The Predicament of the Sinister Healer 10. Popular control over the Institutions of Health: A Historical Study 11. National Medical Politics in Nigeria 12. Professional Interests and the Creation of Medical Knowledge in Nigeria Conclusions: African Medical Professions Today