The Social Origins of Health and Healing in Africa |
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Contents
Introduction | 1967 |
Consequences | 1981 |
The Social Costs of Production | 1987 |
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Ademuwagun African healing African medicine African Studies African Therapeutic agriculture Aklilu Lemma analysis Anthropology assumptions authority autonomy Azande biomedicine British colonial conquest conditions of health context continent costs of production crops crucial cults of affliction cultural Demographic disease distribution diviner doctors early colonial period East ecological economic ecosystem effects efficacy example Feierman Gambia Gramsci Hausa health services History household and community Ibadan IJHS illness important Insecticides interpretation irrigation Janzen Kenya knowledge Lemba literature London Lwezi malaria malnutrition Medical Systems migrant labor mortality Nigeria nutrition organization patient patterns Patterson peasant physicians political popular healers population practice pre-colonial period problem professional regions relatives role schistosomiasis Schoffeleers scholars season Shona sick social costs society Sociology South Africa Southern Rhodesia survival Tanzania Traditional Healers traditional intellectuals traditional medicine trypanosomiasis Turshen Uganda University Press urban West Africa witchcraft women workers York Yoruba Zaire Zambia