The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3910670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Setel (0000-0002-9042-5699) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Social basis of health and healing in Africa, John M Janzen, 1992 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219575 |
| OpenAlex | W3023355084 |
| Language | EN |
Life
Naming matters
Worlds in a bottle
Medical pluralism, boundary making, and tuberculosis in Lambaréné, Gabon
Gender differences in beliefs about health
Knowledge free and ‘unfree’
From the Garden City of West Africa to a landscape of urban crises
Through marsh and mountain
Authority that is customary
Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing
HIV and the remaking of hunger and nutrition in South Africa
The transfer of European social policy concepts to tropical Africa, 1900–50
Indigenous systems of forest conservation
Caring for Those in Crisis
Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in RuralSouthernAfrica
Subjects, Participants, Collaborators’
Voices of African Traditional Healers
Traditional Healing as Indigenous Knowledge
Civil society’ and HIV/Aids in Africa
Saying 'No' to PrEP research in Malawi
Predictive genetic testing and the making of the pre-symptomatic person
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
Practice, Performance, and Experience in Ritual Healing
How 'alternative' is CAM? Rethinking conventional dichotomies between biomedicine and complementary/alternative medicine
Bio-politics and the promotion of traditional herbal medicine in Vietnam
Malaria, environmental change, and a historical epidemiology of childhood ‘cold fevers’
Beyond biomedicine
Theaters of the Profane
Pain, Personhood, and Translating Sickle Cell Anemia
Challenges in Exploratory Methods for Tuberculosis Research in South Africa
Concepts of Illness Among the Swahili of Lamu, Kenya
Baridi
Collaborative work between traditional healers and medical doctors in coming up with a cure and treatment plan among the Dagomba of Ghana since 1900
New Directions in the History of Medicine in European, Colonial and Transimperial Contexts
Medical pluralism and ambivalent trust
It’s in our veins’
Tabloid Brand Medicine Chests
The (Re)negotiation of Illness Diagnoses and Responsibility for Child Death in Rural Mali
Cross-Cultural Healing in East African Ethnography
Change and Continuity in the Medical Culture of the Hmong in Kansas City
Sacrifice, Plants, and Western Pharmaceuticals
Willing the Spirits to Reveal Themselves
Medical Pluralism and Islam in Swahili Communities in Kenya
Irrational acts
Food, gender, and survival among street adults in Mwanza, Tanzania
The Tongue Only Works Without Worries
Food Beliefs and Practices During Pregnancy in Ghana
Guerrilla healthcare innovation
Anthropology, Polanyi, and Afropentecostal Ritual
Entre las políticas de lo viviente y las políticas de la vida. Hacia una antropología de la salud
The Empire Strikes Back
Nabuzaana Omunozzi w’Eddagala
Pagan practices and the death of children
Primary Health Care initiatives in colonial Kenya
We Grandmothers Know Plenty
The adapting healer
Villagers
Injections and the fear of death
Colonialism, Biko and Aids
Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions
The social dynamics of consent and refusal in HIV surveillance in rural South Africa
The evangelical uses of leprosy
A qualitative approach to examining health care access in rural South Africa
Music and health communication in The Gambia
Encounters with panaceas
A Faith for Ourselves’
Peripheries, suburbanisms and change in sub-Saharan African cities
Race, crime, welfare and state social institutions in South Africa from the 1940's
Africans and the Myth of Rural Retirement in South Africa, ca 1900–1950
Health-Seeking Nomads and Faith-Healing in a Medically Pluralistic Context in Mbeya, Tanzania
African Experiments in Health and Healing
"Becoming "One Who Treats
Reconsidering the Allure of the Culturally Distant in Therapy Seeking
Appropriating “Malaria
Biomedical Techniques in Context
Illness Transmission and Proximity
From Friendly Society to Compulsory Medical Aid Association
Public health and tropical modernity
Lepra
Parents' Understanding of the Causes and Management of Their Children's Epilepsy in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Peak Experiences Matter
Agency and the Arusha Declaration
Explaining Surgical Evangelism in Colonial Southern Africa
Medical Legitimacy
Earlier African Historical Demographies
Legacies of civil wars
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Healing the Nation
Still so many illusions to cast off
Birds and Khoesān
The Transmission of Knowledge in South African Traditional Healing
His mother became medicine
Entre politiques de la vie et politiques du vivant
Purity, cleanliness, and smell
Sanguma and scepticism
Animal disease and the limits of local knowledge
That is not religion, that is the gods’
The powers of nature
Knowledge in Practice
Discourses on inequality
| Highly cited | No |
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