Bodies, Politics, and African Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies, Politics, and African Healing write by Stacey A. Langwick. This book was released on 2011-06-23. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.
Bodies and Politics
Bodies and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies and Politics write by . This book was released on 2002. Bodies and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Healing Traditions
Healing Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healing Traditions write by Karen E. Flint. This book was released on 2008-10-21. Healing Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 relations to state power. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948 provides a long-overdue historical perspective to these interactions and an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges. Between 1820 and 1948 traditional healers in Natal, South Africa, transformed themselves from politically powerful men and women who challenged colonial rule and law into successful entrepreneurs who competed for turf and patients with white biomedical doctors and pharmacists. To understand what is “traditional” about traditional medicine, Flint argues that we must consider the cultural actors and processes not commonly associated with African therapeutics: white biomedical practitioners, Indian healers, and the implementing of white rule. Carefully crafted, well written, and powerfully argued, Flint’s analysis of the ways that indigenous medical knowledge and therapeutic practices were forged, contested, and transformed over two centuries is highly illuminating, as is her demonstration that many “traditional” practices changed over time. Her discussion of African and Indian medical encounters opens up a whole new way of thinking about the social basis of health and healing in South Africa. This important book will be core reading for classes and future scholarship on health and healing in Africa.
Africa in My Bones
Africa in My Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa in My Bones write by David Cumes. This book was released on 2004. Africa in My Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is a fascinating account of a surgeon "s odyssey into the spirit world of African healing. It is the story of his initiation as a sangoma and how his life has been changed and enriched by the experience. It includes photographs of the author "s training.
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healing Bodies, Saving Souls write by . This book was released on 2016-08-01. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor – exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer – exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have examined the history of this important aspect of the missionary movement. This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures. Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.
