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The African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange [[electronic resource] /] / David Baronov



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Autore: Baronov David Visualizza persona
Titolo: The African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange [[electronic resource] /] / David Baronov Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina: 306.461096
398.353096
398/.353096
Soggetto topico: Traditional medicine - Africa
Ethnology - Africa
Medicine - Africa - History - 19th century
Medicine - Africa - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
Sommario/riassunto: Beginning 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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ISBN: 1-59213-917-5
1-281-97335-1
9786611973353
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453804203321
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