LEADER 02997nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910822881103321 005 20240418123841.0 010 $a1-59213-917-5 010 $a1-281-97335-1 010 $a9786611973353 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579399 035 $a(EBL)407555 035 $a(OCoLC)437247321 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000288369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12112295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10372607 035 $a(PQKB)10134088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000334449 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297196 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334449 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10271336 035 $a(PQKB)11604892 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC407555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL407555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10267609 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL197335 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579399 100 $a20090312d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange /$fDavid Baronov 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59213-916-7 311 $a1-59213-915-9 320 $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 606 $aTraditional medicine$zAfrica 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aMedicine$zAfrica$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMedicine$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aTraditional medicine 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 676 $a306.461096 676 $a398.353096 676 $a398/.353096 700 $aBaronov$b David$01720841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822881103321 996 $aThe African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange$94119890 997 $aUNINA