African Medical Pluralism

Author/Contributor(s):	Olsen, William C ; Sargent, Carolyn ; Stroeken, Koen ; Wendland, Claire ; Kleinman, Arthur ; Janzen, John M ; Rasmussen, Susan J ; Langwick, Stacey A ; Sargent, Carolyn ; Taylor, Christopher ; Renne, Elisha P ; Grundfest Schoepf, Brooke ; Trovalla, Ulrika
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	02/27/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 contexts.