Health, Healing and Illness in African History (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
2021-02-25
Förlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Illustratör/Fotograf
20 bw illus
Illustrationer
20 bw illus
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 15 mm
Vikt
390 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781474254373

Health, Healing and Illness in African History

av Dr Rebekah Lee
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-02-25
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In this book, Rebekah Lee offers a critical introduction to the diverse history of health, healing and illness in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1800s to the present day. Its focus is not simply on disease but rather on how illness and health were understood and managed: by healthcare providers, African patients, their families and communities. Through a sustained interdisciplinary approach, Lee brings to the foreground a cast of actors, institutions and ideas that both profoundly and intimately shaped African health experiences and outcomes. This book guides the reader through a wide range of historical source material, and highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations which have enriched this scholarship. Part One delivers a concise historical overview of African health and illness from the long pre-colonial past through the colonial period and into the present day, providing an understanding of broad patterns of major disease challenges, experiences of illness, and local and global health interventions and their persistence or transformation across time. Part Two adopts a case study approach, focusing on specific health challenges in Africa HIV/AIDS, mental illness, tropical disease and occupational disease and their unfolding across time and space. Health, Healing and Illness in African History is the first wide-ranging survey of this key topic in African history and the history of health and medicine, and the ideal introduction for students.
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The range of sources discussed and the examples [Rebekah Lee] covers repeatedly extend beyond disciplinary boundaries. It is as medically informed as it is anthropologically and politically scientific. * H-Soz-Kult (Bloomsbury Translation) * An immensely useful and erudite synthesis, ideal for advanced undergraduate students learning about the practice of historical inquiry as well as graduate students studying for comprehensive exams. ... As both a road map of our past and a blueprint for the future, it is essential and rewarding reading. * ISIS Journal *

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Rebekah Lee is Senior Lecturer in History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa (2009).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction PART I: Historical Dynamics 1. Early African Healing Systems, Therapeutic Gateways and Disease Exchanges 2. Colonial Control, Tropical Medicine, and African Health 3. Changing Landscapes of Health and Illness in Contemporary Africa PART II: Case Studies over Time and Space 4. HIV/AIDS in Historical Perspective(s) 5. Mental Illness and the African Mind 6. Tropical Disease Redux: Malaria and Sleeping Sickness 7. Occupational Lung Disease and Economic Exploitation in South Africa Bibliography Index

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