Your Pocket Is What Cures You : : The Politics of Health in Senegal / / Ellen E Foley.
In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-level approach, anthro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Medical Anthropology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Different African Health Story
- 2. A Brief History of Senegal
- 3. Urban and Rural Dilemmas
- 4. Global Health Reform in Saint Louis
- 5. Market-Based Medicine and Shantytown Politics in Pikine
- 6. Knowledge Encounters: Biomedicine, Islam, and Wolof Medicine
- 7. Gender, Social Hierarchy, and Health Practice
- 8. Domestic Disputes and Generational Struggles over Household Health
- 9. Encountering Development in Ganjool
- 10. Believe in God, but Plow Your Field
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the author