African Medical Pluralism - 9780253024770

In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.

• | Author: William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 0253024773
• | ISBN-13: 9780253024770