Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers

Name: Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers
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ISBN: 9780826518071

ISBN-10: 0826518079

ISBN-13: 9780826518071

Edition: 2012

Authors: David S. Simmons

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List price: $99.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 2/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

David S. Simmons is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the University of South Carolina.



Acknowledgments


Misfortunes without End: An Introduction to AIDS in Zimbabwe



The State of Health and the Health of the State: A Social Demography of AIDS in Zimbabwe



Maladies of Modernity: Economic Structural Adjustment, HIV/AIDS, and the State of Health



Conspiracy Theories: The So-Called AIDS Virus



History and Modernity: The Historical Constitution of N'anga as Dangerous Subjects



Godly Medicine, Pagan Superstition, and the Colonial State



N'anga and the Workings of Vernacular Modernity



Managing Modernity: N'anga Responses to HIV/AIDS



Translating Policy into Action: ZINATHA and HIV/AIDS Education



N'anga Theories of Infectious Diseases



Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in the Age of Intensified Globalization


Conclusion: Vernacular Modernity, Explanatory Models, and HIV/AIDS


Notes


References


Index