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- Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
As subSaharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration, however, are far from settled and continually contested. As Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe demonstrates, serious questions continue to linger in the medical community since the explosion of the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are healers obstacles to health development? Do their explanations for the disease disregard biomedical science? Can the worlds of traditional healing and modern medicine coexist and cooperate?
Combining anthropological, historical, and public health perspectives, Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe explores the intersection of African healing traditions and Western health development, emphasizing the role of this historical relationship in current debates about HIV/AIDS. Drawing on diverse sources including colonial records, missionary correspondence, international health policy reports, and interviews with traditional healers, anthropologist David S. Simmons demonstrates the remarkable adaptive qualities of these disparate communities as they try to meet the urgent needs of the people.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. iii-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- I. The State of Health and the Health of the State: A Social Demography of AIDS in Zimbabwe
- II. History and Modernity: The Historical Constitution of N'anga as Dangerous Subjects
- III. Managing Modernity: N'anga Responses to HIV/AIDS
- 6. N'anga Theories of Infectious Diseases
- pp. 149-168
- References
- pp. 203-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826518095
Related ISBN(s)
9780826518071
MARC Record
OCLC
779165289
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-04-16
Language
English
Open Access
No