Roxane Richter is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at the School of Public Health, University of Louisville. She has been distinguished as a Fulbright Specialist in Medical Mass Casualty Planning & Response (Ghana), U.S. Embassy Ambassador Distinguished Scholar (University of Gondar, Ethiopia), and a Fulbright-Fogarty NIH Postdoctoral Global Health Fellow (Sub-Saharan Africa).Dr. Thomas Max Flowers is a certified emergency physician with the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 1992. He currently practices Emergency Medicine at Commonwealth Health Care Corporation public hospital in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.Elias Kifon Bongmba, PhD, grew up in Cameroon. He holds The Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion at Rice University. Bongmba is past President of the African Association for the Study of Religion. He is author of Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and Crises of AIDS, and other works on religion. Bongmba was awarded DTheo hc from Lund University in Sweden and the Doctor of Divinity hc from The University of Zululand. He is the recipient of the 2020 Ray L. Hart Service Award from the American Academy of Religion and the The Dr. A.O Larson Distinguished Alumni Service Award from the University of Sioux Falls in SD.Dr. Ananya Kassahun Admasu is an Assistant professor in Orthopedics, FCS(Ortho) ECSA. Adjunct Professor at University of Gondar, Ethiopia. SURGhub Ambassador and Global Surgery leader.

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• List of Photos; List of Figures and Charts; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Declaration of patient consent; Conflicts of interest; 1 - Traditional Healing: The Dialectical Balance of the Divine and the Human; 2 - Pathologies of Social Mechanisms; 3 - In Their Own Words: Conversations with Working African Bonesetters, Their Patients, and the Medical Practitioners Who Treat Them; 4 - Phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Ethnobotanics; 5 - A Brief Global Overview into the Development of Orthopedic Science; 6 - Back to the Basics; 7 - Casualties and Complications in Fracture Management; 8 - Current State(s) of Care; 9 - On-The-Ground Realities and Recommendations; 10 - Facing Forward; References; Index

Roxane Richter is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at the School of Public Health, University of Louisville. She has been distinguished as a Fulbright Specialist in Medical Mass Casualty Planning & Response (Ghana), U.S. Embassy Ambassador Distinguished Scholar (University of Gondar, Ethiopia), and a Fulbright-Fogarty NIH Postdoctoral Global Health Fellow (Sub-Saharan Africa).Dr. Thomas Max Flowers is a certified emergency physician with the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 1992. He currently practices Emergency Medicine at Commonwealth Health Care Corporation public hospital in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.Elias Kifon Bongmba, PhD, grew up in Cameroon. He holds The Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion at Rice University. Bongmba is past President of the African Association for the Study of Religion. He is author of Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and Crises of AIDS, and other works on religion. Bongmba was awarded DTheo hc from Lund University in Sweden and the Doctor of Divinity hc from The University of Zululand. He is the recipient of the 2020 Ray L. Hart Service Award from the American Academy of Religion and the The Dr. A.O Larson Distinguished Alumni Service Award from the University of Sioux Falls in SD.Dr. Ananya Kassahun Admasu is an Assistant professor in Orthopedics, FCS(Ortho) ECSA. Adjunct Professor at University of Gondar, Ethiopia. SURGhub Ambassador and Global Surgery leader.

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• List of Photos; List of Figures and Charts; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Declaration of patient consent; Conflicts of interest; 1 - Traditional Healing: The Dialectical Balance of the Divine and the Human; 2 - Pathologies of Social Mechanisms; 3 - In Their Own Words: Conversations with Working African Bonesetters, Their Patients, and the Medical Practitioners Who Treat Them; 4 - Phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Ethnobotanics; 5 - A Brief Global Overview into the Development of Orthopedic Science; 6 - Back to the Basics; 7 - Casualties and Complications in Fracture Management; 8 - Current State(s) of Care; 9 - On-The-Ground Realities and Recommendations; 10 - Facing Forward; References; Index

Roxane Richter is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at the School of Public Health, University of Louisville. She has been distinguished as a Fulbright Specialist in Medical Mass Casualty Planning & Response (Ghana), U.S. Embassy Ambassador Distinguished Scholar (University of Gondar, Ethiopia), and a Fulbright-Fogarty NIH Postdoctoral Global Health Fellow (Sub-Saharan Africa).Dr. Thomas Max Flowers is a certified emergency physician with the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 1992. He currently practices Emergency Medicine at Commonwealth Health Care Corporation public hospital in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.Elias Kifon Bongmba, PhD, grew up in Cameroon. He holds The Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion at Rice University. Bongmba is past President of the African Association for the Study of Religion. He is author of Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and Crises of AIDS, and other works on religion. Bongmba was awarded DTheo hc from Lund University in Sweden and the Doctor of Divinity hc from The University of Zululand. He is the recipient of the 2020 Ray L. Hart Service Award from the American Academy of Religion and the The Dr. A.O Larson Distinguished Alumni Service Award from the University of Sioux Falls in SD.Dr. Ananya Kassahun Admasu is an Assistant professor in Orthopedics, FCS(Ortho) ECSA. Adjunct Professor at University of Gondar, Ethiopia. SURGhub Ambassador and Global Surgery leader.

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• List of Photos; List of Figures and Charts; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Declaration of patient consent; Conflicts of interest; 1 - Traditional Healing: The Dialectical Balance of the Divine and the Human; 2 - Pathologies of Social Mechanisms; 3 - In Their Own Words: Conversations with Working African Bonesetters, Their Patients, and the Medical Practitioners Who Treat Them; 4 - Phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Ethnobotanics; 5 - A Brief Global Overview into the Development of Orthopedic Science; 6 - Back to the Basics; 7 - Casualties and Complications in Fracture Management; 8 - Current State(s) of Care; 9 - On-The-Ground Realities and Recommendations; 10 - Facing Forward; References; Index