Healing traditions [[electronic resource] ] : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 / / Karen E. Flint

• Autore: Flint Karen Elizabeth <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press; Scottsville, South Africa, : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.8/80968
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - South Africa - History; Traditional medicine - South Africa - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom -- Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom -- Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91 -- Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948 -- African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948.
• Sommario/riassunto: In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients' access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country's traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different r
• Titolo autorizzato: Healing traditions
• ISBN: 0-8214-4302-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781247703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New African histories series.