Healing Traditions - African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South

Informationen zum Autor Karen E. Flint is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina! Charlotte. Klappentext Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges. "An extremely timely book that will have immediate impact on the heated current debates across several fields of study, forming part of a new and exciting debate emerging around new South African history. The book has great potential to have a measurable impact on the teaching of medicine and health . . . and the various pathways to healing and health in our current HIV/AIDS pandemic." --Catherine Burns, senior lecturer in history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Zusammenfassung Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa’s traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Karen E. Flint
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780821418505
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1850-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: New African Histories; New African Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Alternativmedizin