David S. Simmons Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers 9780826518071

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Автор: David S. Simmons
Название: Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers
ISBN: 9780826518071
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

ВИЧ / СПИД: социальные аспекты

Инфекционные и контагиозные заболевания

ВИЧ / СПИД

ISBN-10: 0826518079
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2012
Серия: Medicine
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 black & white illustrations
Размер: 231 x 155 x 25
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: HIV / AIDS
Подзаголовок: Hiv/aids and traditional healers
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: As sub-Saharan 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.

Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers, David S. Simmons