Your pocket is what cures you :: the politics of health in Senegal /

Your Pocket Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts in health and healing spurred by sub-Saharan African structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, and analyzes the dilemmas they create for health professionals and patients. Grounded in ethnography, it also ex...

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1. Verfasser: Foley, Ellen E., 1976-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in medical anthropology.
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Zusammenfassung:Your Pocket Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts in health and healing spurred by sub-Saharan African structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, and analyzes the dilemmas they create for health professionals and patients. Grounded in ethnography, it also explores how cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam and Wolof ethnomedicine, are central to understanding how people manage vulnerability to ill health.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 188 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
ISBN:9780813549071
0813549078
1282562347
9781282562349

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