Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia - From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies

Pino Schirripa analyzes the production and distribution of medications in Ethiopia and examines how local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Medicines at the stakes, some thoughts on the currents debate

Chapter 2. The medical system in Tigray

Chapter 3. The social actors in the market of medicines in Tigray

Chapter 4. Tactics, paradoxes, and inequalities

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Pino Schirippa is associate professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

Zusammenfassung

In Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia, Pino Schirippa illustrates the complexity of pharmaceuticals and remedies in Ethiopia. Schirripa details how these cures are produced and distributed and how their proliferation is influenced by local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Pino Schirripa, Schirripa Pino
• Mitarbeit: Ciaran Durkan (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498581561
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8156-1
• Seiten: 130
• Serien: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: In
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology