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

• Superior document: African dynamics ; v. 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Dekker, M.; Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: African dynamics ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 academic backgrounds, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets and the way medical staff, patients, households and institutions navigate them in their quest for well-being. By presenting a detailed economic ethnography of this multifacetted process of navigating the market, the book sets a new agenda for research as a result of the current predicaments facing health and healing in African societies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Marleen Dekker and Rijk van Dijk -- Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa / Rijk van Dijk and Marleen Dekker -- Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeris / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi -- Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana / Christine Böhmig -- Market forces threatening school feeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya / Dick Foeken , Wijnand Klaver , Samuel O. Owuor and Alice M. Mwangi -- Dashed hopes and missed opportunities: Malaria control policies in Kenya (1896-2009) / Kenneth Ombongi and Marcel Rutten -- The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa / Robert Thornton -- Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria / Walter E.A. van Beek -- The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness / Nadine Beckmann -- Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households / Marleen Dekker -- Can’t buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo / André Leliveld , Corine ‘t Hart , Jérémie Gnimadi and Marleen Dekker -- Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- List of authors / Marleen Dekker and Rijk van Dijk.