Pharmacy in Senegal - Gender, Healing, and Entrepreneurship

Donna A. Patterson is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. France's Biomedical Expansion: Creating African Medical Personnel

2. Practicing Pharmacy

3. Women Own Pharmacies Too: Financing Private Pharmacies

4. House and Street: Negotiating Professional and Private Lives

5. Pharmaceutical Trafficking in Colonial and Postcolonial Senegal

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Donna A. Patterson

Summary

Explores the rise and expansion of pharmacies in Senegal in the 20th century. This book notes that many pharmacists are women, which adds an important dimension to this story about medical training and the medical profession.

Product details

• Authors: Donna A Patterson, Donna A. Patterson, Patterson Donna a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2015
• EAN: 9780253014757
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01475-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General