Medicine and health in Africa
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Paula Viterbo and Kalala Ngalamulume
Publisher: Michigan State University Press; LIT Verlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: East Lansing; Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780870139918; 9783825892265
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is culture risky? Media representations and local interpretations of risk in western Kenya / Crystal Biruk; title: The politics of HIV education for adolescents in South Africa / Zolani Ngwane; title: Navigating the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi / Susan Cotts Watkins; title: HIV/AIDS in Africa : no more slogans / Evelyne Shuster; title: Stigma and the political economy of disease : the neglected dimension of interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma / Laura McGough; title: Comments on stigma and behavior change : implications for HIV prevention / Judith Porter; title: Malaria and the peopling of early tropical Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr.; title: Drug resistant bacteria and childhood diarrhea in Africa / Faith Wallace-Gadsden and Iruka Okeke; title: Classify and sequestrate : the regulation of madness in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, 1890-1914 / Kalala Ngalamulume; title: Commodity fetichismo, the holy spirit, and the turn to pentecostal and African Independent Churches in central Mozambique / James Pfeiffer; title: The long shadow of colonialism : why we study medicine in Africa / Jonathan Sadowsky.