Health, Healing and Illness in African History - Paperback

Introduction -- Historical Dynamics -- Early African Healing Systems, Therapeutic Gateways and Disease Exchanges -- Colonial Control, Tropical Medicine, and African Health -- Changing Landscapes of Health and Illness in Contemporary Africa -- Case Studies over Time and Space -- HIV/AIDs in Historical Perspective(s) -- Mental Illness and the 'African Mind' -- Tropical Disease Redux: Malaria and Sleeping Sickness -- Occupational Lung Disease and Economic Exploitation in South Africa.

• | Author: Rebekah Lee
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: February 25, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1474254373
• | ISBN-13: 9781474254373