Steven Feierman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Peasant Intellectuals (Wisconsin 1990). John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He won the Wellcome prize and the medal of the Royal Anthropological Institue for The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (California 1978).

• MAPSFIGURESTABLESPREFACEPART I • INTRODUCTIONPART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICANPOPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease:Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina FasoDennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949A/egan Vaughan3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya,1880-1920Afarc H. Dawson4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa,1850-1950Randall AI. Packard5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health ServicesCommission in South AfricaShula A/arks and Neil AnderssonPART III· THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPRECOLONIAL MEDICINE6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into HausalandIsmail H. Abdalla7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western EquatorialAfrican TherapeuticsJohn M. Janzen8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central AfricaGloria WaiteCOLONIAL MEDICINE9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical AfricaPhilip D. Curtin10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania,1900-1945Terence 0. RangerTWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan TherapeuticsBernard Greenwood12. Causality of Disease among the SenufoNicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini13. A Modern History ofLozi TherapeuticsGwyn Prins14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South AfricaHarrietNgubane15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among theTabwa of ZaireChristopher Davis-Roberts16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing:Observations from HausalandMurray LastPOSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE17. The Social Production of Health in KenyaF. M. Mhuru18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra LeoneCarol P. MacCormackBIBLIOGRAPHY

Steven Feierman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Peasant Intellectuals (Wisconsin 1990). John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He won the Wellcome prize and the medal of the Royal Anthropological Institue for The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (California 1978).

• MAPSFIGURESTABLESPREFACEPART I • INTRODUCTIONPART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICANPOPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease:Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina FasoDennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949A/egan Vaughan3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya,1880-1920Afarc H. Dawson4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa,1850-1950Randall AI. Packard5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health ServicesCommission in South AfricaShula A/arks and Neil AnderssonPART III· THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPRECOLONIAL MEDICINE6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into HausalandIsmail H. Abdalla7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western EquatorialAfrican TherapeuticsJohn M. Janzen8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central AfricaGloria WaiteCOLONIAL MEDICINE9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical AfricaPhilip D. Curtin10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania,1900-1945Terence 0. RangerTWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan TherapeuticsBernard Greenwood12. Causality of Disease among the SenufoNicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini13. A Modern History ofLozi TherapeuticsGwyn Prins14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South AfricaHarrietNgubane15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among theTabwa of ZaireChristopher Davis-Roberts16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing:Observations from HausalandMurray LastPOSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE17. The Social Production of Health in KenyaF. M. Mhuru18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra LeoneCarol P. MacCormackBIBLIOGRAPHY

Steven Feierman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Peasant Intellectuals (Wisconsin 1990). John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He won the Wellcome prize and the medal of the Royal Anthropological Institue for The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (California 1978).

• MAPSFIGURESTABLESPREFACEPART I • INTRODUCTIONPART II • THE DECLINE AND RISE OF AFRICANPOPULATION: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE1. The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease:Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina FasoDennis D. Cordell, joel W. Gregory, and Victor Pichi2. Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949A/egan Vaughan3. Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya,1880-1920Afarc H. Dawson4. Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa,1850-1950Randall AI. Packard5. Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health ServicesCommission in South AfricaShula A/arks and Neil AnderssonPART III· THERAPEUTIC TRADITIONS OF AFRICA:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPRECOLONIAL MEDICINE6. Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into HausalandIsmail H. Abdalla7. Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western EquatorialAfrican TherapeuticsJohn M. Janzen8. Public Health in Precolonial East-Central AfricaGloria WaiteCOLONIAL MEDICINE9. Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical AfricaPhilip D. Curtin10. Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania,1900-1945Terence 0. RangerTWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN MEDICINE11. Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan TherapeuticsBernard Greenwood12. Causality of Disease among the SenufoNicole Sindzingre and Andras Zemplini13. A Modern History ofLozi TherapeuticsGwyn Prins14. Clinical Practice and Organization oflndigenous Healers in South AfricaHarrietNgubane15. Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among theTabwa of ZaireChristopher Davis-Roberts16. The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing:Observations from HausalandMurray LastPOSTCOLONIAL MEDICINE17. The Social Production of Health in KenyaF. M. Mhuru18. Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra LeoneCarol P. MacCormackBIBLIOGRAPHY