Pharmacy in Senegal - Gender, Healing, and Entrepreneurship

Informationen zum Autor Donna A. Patterson is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Klappentext Donna A. Patterson is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Donna A. Patterson, Patterson Donna a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2015
• EAN: 9780253014702
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01470-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medizin, allgemein, Sociology, MEDICAL / Pharmacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery