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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania
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ISBN: 025300196X 9780253001962 9780253355270 0253355273 9780253222459 0253222451 9780253222565 9780253001405 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and p


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Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
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ISBN: 9780253357090 9780253223685 9780253005328 0253005329 1283608677 9786613921123 9781283608671 0253357098 0253223687 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of p

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