Markets of well-being : navigating health and healing in Africa / / edited by Marleen Dekker, Rijk van Dijk.

Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people’s well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse aca...

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Superior document:African dynamics ; v. 9
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:African dynamics ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 p.)
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