The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of - Global Cultural Chang

Informationen zum Autor David Baronov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College and is also the author of The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital and Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods. Klappentext How Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African culture Zusammenfassung How Western medicine has transformed - and been transformed by - African culture Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. The Origins of African Biomedicine 2. Dissecting Western Medicine 3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission 4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents 5. African Biomedicine References Index

Product details

• Authors: David Baronov
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9781592139156
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-915-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Medizinsoziologie, Afrika