African biomedicine
Subtitle: Africa's appropriation and ongoing transformation of Western medicine in world-historical perspective
By: David Baronov.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781592139156
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Africa; Medicine -- Africa -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Anthropology, Cultural -- Africa; History of Medicine -- Africa; History, 19th Century -- Africa; Anthropology, Cultural -- Africa; History, 20th Century -- Africa; Medicine, African Traditional -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of African biomedicine; title: Dissecting Western medicine; title: Biomedicine's civilizing mission; title: African pluralistic medicine and its biomedical antecedents; title: African biomedicine.