Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia

Informationen zum Autor Alisher Latypov works as an international consultant on HIV! health and development issues. He completed his doctoral studies at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL! UK. Dr. Latypov is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Drug Policy and Harm Reduction Journal. Zusammenfassung This book examines issues critical to our understanding of health and healing in contemporary Central Asia and offers new perspectives on the history of medicine in Central Asia. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Muslim medical culture in modern Central Asia: a brief note on manuscript sources from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries Devin DeWeese 2. The opium war at the ‘roof of the world’: the ‘elimination’ of addiction in Soviet Badakhshan Alisher Latypov 3. Mentally ill or chosen by spirits? ‘Shamanic illness’ and the revival of Kazakh traditional medicine in post-Soviet Kazakhstan Danuta Penkala-Gawecka 4. Prohibition, stigma and violence against men who have sex with men: effects on HIV in Central Asia Alisher Latypov, Tim Rhodes and Lucy Reynolds 5. Kyrgyzstan: still a regional ‘pioneer’ in HIV/AIDS or living on its reputation? Svetlana Ancker, Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee and Neil Spicer

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• Authors: Alisher Latypov, Alisher (Columbia University Latypov
• Assisted by: Alisher Latypov (Editor), Alisher (Columbia University Latypov (Editor), Latypov Alisher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2014
• EAN: 9780415739115
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73911-5
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Thirdworlds; ThirdWorlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / History, Central Asia, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Central Asia;History of medicine;Healers;Drugs;HIV/AIDS