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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Pino Schirippa is associate professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pino Schirripa, Schirripa Pino
• Assisted by: Ciaran Durkan (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498581561
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8156-1
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: In
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology