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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baronov, David

Titel

The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange

Ist Teil von

• Temple University Press, Sep 2008, 264 pp, 2008

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The volume contends that contemporary African medical systems - no less "biomedical" than Western medicine - in fact greatly enrich and expand the notion of biomedicine, reframing it as a global cultural form deployed across global networks of cultural exchange. The book analyzes biomedicine as a complex and dynamic sociocultural form, the conceptual premises of which make it necessarily subject to ongoing change and development as it travels the globe.