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

• Autore: Baronov David
• 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The African transformation of Western medicine and the dynamics of global cultural exchange
• ISBN: 1-59213-917-5; 1-281-97335-1; 9786611973353
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782436203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II