Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 /
Author / Creator: | Flint, Karen Elizabeth, 1968- |
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Imprint: | Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. |
Description: | xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | New African histories series |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476186 |
Summary: | In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients' access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country's traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different relations to state power. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 provides a long-overdue historical perspective to these interactions and an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780821418499 0821418491 9780821418505 0821418505 9781869141707 1869141709 |