Healing Traditions African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948

Name: Healing Traditions African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948
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ISBN: 9780821418505

ISBN-10: 0821418505

ISBN-13: 9780821418505

Edition: 2008

Authors: Karen E. Flint

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In August 2004, South Africa officially legalized the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patientsrsquo; access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the countryrsquo;s traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different relations to state power.Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Karen E. Flint is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: What Is "Traditional" about Traditional Healers and Medicines?



Negotiating Tradition in the Zulu Kingdom, 1820-79



Healing the Body: Disease, Knowledge, and Medical Practices in the




Healing the Body Politic: Muthi, Healers, and Nation Building in the Zulu Kingdom



Negotiating Tradition and Cultural Encounters in Natal and Zululand, 1830-1948



Early African-White Encounters: Healers, Witchcraft, and Colonial Rule, 1830-91



Competition, Race, and Professionalization: African Healers and White Medical Practitioners, 1891-1948



African-Indian Encounters and Their Influence on African Therapeutics, 1860-1948


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index