The Problem of Money : : African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana /

The Problem of Money : : African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana / / Bernhard Bierlich.

Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people’s...

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Bierlich, Bernhard,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 ‘New’ and Enduring Social and Economic Formations
  • 2 Powers of the Person
  • 3 Basic Concepts of Health and Illness
  • 4 Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization
  • 5 The Herbalist, Medical Pluralism and the Cultural Patterning of Illness
  • 6 Health, Wealth and Magic
  • 7 A Woman’s Lot: the Practical Realities of Care
  • 8 The Problem of Money: Money and Medicine
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Index

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