Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 /

Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 /

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Author / Creator:	Flint, Karen Elizabeth, 1968-
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
Subject:	Medicine -- South Africa -- History. Traditional medicine -- South Africa -- History. Medicine, African Traditional -- history -- South Africa. Colonialism -- history -- South Africa. History, 19th Century -- South Africa. History, 20th Century -- South Africa. Missions and Missionaries -- history -- South Africa. Witchcraft -- history -- South Africa. Medicine. Traditional medicine. South Africa. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476186

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ISBN:	9780821418499 (hc : alk. paper) 0821418491 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821418505 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0821418505 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781869141707 (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal Press) 1869141709 (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal Press)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.

Table of Contents:

Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom
Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom
Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91
Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948
African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948.