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Current Challenges with their Evolving Solutions in Surgical Practice in West Africa : A Reader
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ISBN: 9988860285 9789988860288 9789988647391 9789988860226 9988647395 9988647603 9789988647605 9789988647650 9789988647605 9988647654 1283005220 9786613005229 9988647883 998864776X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Sub-Saharan Publishers,

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Worldwide, there is a plethora of study materials in the form of authoritative review articles on disease entities afflicting the Western world but relatively few publications exploring similar problems confronting the developing countries, where resource limitation adds an extra dimension to the challenges facing the clinician. The contributions in this Reader address common surgical challenges and what measures have evolved to countenance these problems. This therefore addresses Current Surgical Practice, placing emphasis on the principles underlying the consensus opinions prevailing in


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The predicament of blackness
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ISBN: 0226923029 0226923037 9780226923024 9780226923031 0226923045 1283742500 9780226923048 9781283742504 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press

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What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space-as a fixed historic source for the African diaspora-she envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Against the backdrop of Ghana's history as a major port in the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent and disruptive forces of colonialism and postcolonialism, Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of "whiteness" to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African "heritage tourism." Drawing these and other examples together, she shows that race and racism have not only persisted in Ghana after colonialism, but also that the beliefs and practices of this modern society all occur within a global racial hierarchy. In doing so, she provides a powerful articulation of race on the continent and a new way of understanding contemporary Africa-and the modern African diaspora.

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African diaspora --- Blacks --- Heritage tourism --- Race awareness --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Race identity --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Migrations --- Ghana --- Chia-na --- Dēmokratia tēs Gkanas --- Gáana --- Gana --- Gana ka Fasojamana --- Gana Konghwaguk --- Gana Respublikaḣy --- Ganæ --- Ganah --- Ganao --- Ganmudin Orn --- Ghana Vabariik --- Ghanako Errepublika --- Ghaney --- Ghanská republika --- Gkana --- Government of Ghana --- Gweriniaeth Ghana --- Hana (Ghana) --- IGana --- Ochíchìíwú Ghana --- Pobblaght ny Ganey --- Poblachd Ghàna --- Poblacht Ghána --- Qana --- Qana Respublikası --- Repubblica del Ghana --- Republic of Ghana --- República de Ghana --- Rèpublica du Gana --- Republik Ghana --- Republika Gana --- Republiḳat Ganah --- République du Ghana --- Rėspublika Hana --- Respublikæ Ganæ --- Tjóðveldið Gana --- Yn Ghaney --- Γκάνα --- Δημοκρατία της Γκάνας --- Рэспубліка Гана --- Республикæ Ганæ --- Република Гана --- Ганæ --- Гана --- Ганмудин Орн --- רפובליקת גאנה --- גאנה --- ガーナ --- 가나 --- 가나 공화국 --- Ashanti --- Gold Coast --- Northern Territories of the Gold Coast --- Togoland (British) --- Race relations. --- Black persons --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Black people --- African diaspora.


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Spatial Inequalities : Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana
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ISBN: 9400767315 9400767323 9400796471 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city.  It brings a range of disciplinary approaches to bear on the pressing topics of urban poverty, urban health inequalities and urban growth.  The approach is primarily spatial and includes the integration of environmental information from satellites and other geospatial sources with social science and health survey data. The authors Ghanaians and outsiders, have worked to understand the urban dynamics in this burgeoning West African metropolis, with an emphasis on urban disparities in health and living standards. Few cities in the global South have been examined from so many different perspectives. Our analysis employs a wide range of GIScience methods, including analysis of remotely sensed imagery and spatial statistical analysis, applied to a wide range of data, including census, survey and health clinic data, all of which are supplemented by field work, including systematic social observation, focus groups, and key informant interviews. This book aims to explain and highlight the mix of methods, and the important findings that have been emerging from this research, with the goal of providing guidance and inspiration for others doing similar work in cities of other developing nations.

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Regional economic disparities. --- Regional economics -- Congresses. --- Regional planning -- Congresses. --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Social sciences. --- Remote sensing. --- Public health. --- Ghana --- Accra (Ghana) --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Akkra (Ghana) --- Akra (Ghana) --- Nkran (Ghana) --- أكرا (Ghana) --- Горад Акра (Ghana) --- Horad Akra (Ghana) --- Акра (Ghana) --- Аккра (Ghana) --- Ακκρα (Ghana) --- Acra (Ghana) --- Akrao (Ghana) --- 아크라 (Ghana) --- Ak'ŭra (Ghana) --- Аккрæ (Ghana) --- Akkræ (Ghana) --- אקרה (Ghana) --- Aḳrah (Ghana) --- アクラ (Ghana) --- Chia-na --- Gana --- Republic of Ghana --- Ganah --- Government of Ghana --- Rèpublica du Gana --- Qana --- Qana Respublikası --- Gana ka Fasojamana --- Republik Ghana --- Гана --- Gana Respublikaḣy --- Hana (Ghana) --- Рэспубліка Гана --- Rėspublika Hana --- Република Гана --- Republika Gana --- Ghanská republika --- Gweriniaeth Ghana --- Gáana --- Ghana Vabariik --- Γκάνα --- Gkana --- Δημοκρατία της Γκάνας --- Dēmokratia tēs Gkanas --- República de Ghana --- Ganao --- Ghanako Errepublika --- Tjóðveldið Gana --- République du Ghana --- Poblacht Ghána --- Yn Ghaney --- Ghaney --- Pobblaght ny Ganey --- Poblachd Ghàna --- Ганмудин Орн --- Ganmudin Orn --- 가나 --- 가나 공화국 --- Gana Konghwaguk --- Ochíchìíwú Ghana --- Ганæ --- Ganæ --- Республикæ Ганæ --- Respublikæ Ganæ --- IGana --- Repubblica del Ghana --- גאנה --- רפובליקת גאנה --- Republiḳat Ganah --- ガーナ --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Demography. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Public Health. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Urban Ecology. --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Civilization --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Environmental aspects --- Togoland (British) --- Gold Coast --- Ashanti --- Northern Territories of the Gold Coast --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Accra (Ghana) $x Social conditions.

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