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[Traditional medicine and healing in Africa] / edited by Claudia Bruce

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Author:
Bruce, Claudia  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
1979
Notes:
This special issue of Issue publishes papers that were originally presented at the 21st annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Baltimore, November 1978.
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Contents:
Traditional healer in Tanzania / Ann Beck -- The political economy of primary care and "health by the people": an historical explanation / Oscar Gish -- Interfact of traditional and modern medicine in Mali / Pascal James Imperato -- Life, death, reincarnation, and traditional healing in Africa / Austine S. O. Okwu -- The philosophy of African medical practice / Richard C. Onwuanibe -- History of pluralistic medical systems: a sociological analysis of the Ghanaian case / Patrick A. Twumasi -- Traditional healing and medicine in Winti: a sociological interpretation / Charles J. Wooding
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Healing  Search this
Medical care  Search this
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .I868
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_781094