Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

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Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1994

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Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. Several chapters illustrate how the most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease and chape the possibilities of survival. Other discuss a variety of healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies, Muslim humoral medicine, and biomedicine as practiced in hospitals and dispensaries. The editors provide introductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic, and political phenomena.

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Social Sciences Sociology Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology

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CONTENTS
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MAPS
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FIGURES
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TABLES
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PREFACE
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PART I • INTRODUCTION
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PART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICAN POPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
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INTRODUCTION
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1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso
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Dennis D. Cordell, Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piche

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2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949
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Megan Vaughan

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3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya, 1880-1920
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Marc H. Dawson

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4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950
104
Randall M. Packard

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5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa
131
Shula Marks and Neil Andersson

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PART III • THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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INTRODUCTION
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PRECOLONIAL MEDICINE
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6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland
177
Ismail H. Abdalla

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7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics
195
John M. Janzen

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8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa
212
Gloria Waite

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COLONIAL MEDICINE
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9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa
235
Philip D. Curtin

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10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945
256
Terence O. Ranger

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TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE
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11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics
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Bernard Greenwood

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12. Causality of Disease among the Senufo
315
Nicole Sindzingre and Andras Zempleni

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13. A Modern History of Lozi Therapeutics
339
Gwyn Prins

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14. Clinical Practice and Organization of Indigenous Healers in South Africa
366
Harriet Ngubane

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15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire
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Christopher Davis-Roberts

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16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing: Observations from Hausaland
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Murray Last

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POSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE
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17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya
409
F. M. Mburu

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18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone
426
Carol P. MacCormack

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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August 31, 1994

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9780520354715

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Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

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Social Science; General; Anthropology

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Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS

FIGURES

TABLES

PREFACE

PART I • INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso

2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949

3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya, 1880-1920

4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950

5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa

INTRODUCTION

6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland

7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics

8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa

9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa

10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945

11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics

12. Causality of Disease among the Senufo

13. A Modern History of Lozi Therapeutics

14. Clinical Practice and Organization of Indigenous Healers in South Africa

15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire

16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing: Observations from Hausaland

17. The Social Production of Health in Kenya

18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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