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200 14$aThe African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Baronov
210   $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (260 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Origins of African Biomedicine; 2 Dissecting Western Medicine; 3 Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission; 4 African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents; 5 African Biomedicine; References; Index
330   $aBeginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that contemporary African medical systems-no less "biomedical" than Western medicine-in fact greatly enrich and expand the notion of biomedicine, reframing it as a global cultural form deployed across global networks of cultural exchange.The book analyzes biomedicine as a complex and
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