THE SOCIAL BASIS OF HEALTH & HEALING IN AFRICA by Steven Feierman. Hardcover 1st

CA: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing.

Fine/Fine.;
SMALL 4to ; 487 pages; Contents: The demographic reproduction of health
and disease : colonial Central African Republic and contemporary
Burkina Faso / Dennis D. Cordell, Joel W. Gregory, and Victor Piche --
Famine analysis and family relations : Nyasaland in 1949 / Megan Vaughan
--Socioeconomic change and disease : smallpox in colonial Kenya,
1880-1920 / Marc H. Dawson -- Industrialization, rural poverty, and
tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950 / Randall M. Packard --
Industrialization, rural health, and the 1944 National Health Services
Commission in South Africa / Shula Marks and Neil Andersson -- Diffusion
of Islamic medicine into Hausaland / Ismail H. Abdalla --Ideologies and
institutions in precolonial western equatorial African therapeutics /
John M. Janzen -- Public health in precolonial east-central Africa /
Gloria Waite -- Medical knowledge and urban planning in colonial
tropical Africa / Philip D. Curtin. Godly medicine : the ambiguities of
medical mission in southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945 / Terence O. Ranger
-- Cold or spirits? : ambiguity and syncretism in Moroccan therapeutics /
Bernard Greenwood -- Causality of disease among the Senufo / Nicole
Sindzingre and Andras Zempleni -- A modern history of Lozi therapeutics /
Gwyn Prins -- Clinical practice and organization of indigenous healers
in South Africa / Harriet Ngubane --Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa : concepts of
illness and transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire / Christopher
Davis-Roberts --The importance of knowing about not knowing :
observations from Hausaland / Murray Last -- The social production of
health in Kenya / F.M. Mburu -- Health care and the concept of
legitimacy in Sierra Leone / Carol P. MacCormack.Series Title:
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care, no.
30.Responsibility: edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen ;
sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American
Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.