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The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Steven Feierman
The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Steven Feierman
Emphasizes the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. This title illustrates how the most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease and chape the possibilities of survival.
472 pages, 14 figures, 8 tables, 4 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 22, 1992 |
ISBN13 | 9780520066816 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 472 |
Dimensions | 153 × 229 × 38 mm · 772 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Feierman, Steven |
Editor | Janzen, John M. |
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