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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Stacey A. Langwick
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-23 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers
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Pages: 321
Authors: Stacey A. Langwick
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-23 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Hansjörg Dilger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-08 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power i
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Malidoma Patrice Some
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-13 - Publisher: Penguin

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Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationsh
Working Cures
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Sharla M. Fett
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist