17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. MAPS IX
4. FIGURES XI
5. TABLES XIII
6. PREFACE XV
7. PART I • INTRODUCTION 1
8. PART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICAN POPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
9. INTRODUCTION 25
10. 1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso 39
11. 2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949 71
12. 3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya, 1880-1920 90
13. 4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950 104
14. 5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa 131
15. PART III • THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
16. INTRODUCTION 163
17. PRECOLONIAL MEDICINE
18. 6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland 177
19. 7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics 195
20. 8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa 212
21. COLONIAL MEDICINE
22. 9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa 235
23. 10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945 256
24. TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE
25. 11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics 285
26. 12. Causality of Disease among the Senufo 315
27. 13. A Modern History of Lozi Therapeutics 339
28. 14. Clinical Practice and Organization of Indigenous Healers in South Africa 366
29. 15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire 376
30. 16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing: Observations from Hausaland 393
31. POSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE
32. 17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya 409
33. 18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone 426
34. BIBLIOGRAPHY 437
35. INDEX 473