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  • Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

    Transnational Health and Healing

    Modifié par Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, Stacey A. Langwick ...
    Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa—and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bodies, Politics, and African Healing

    The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania

    par Stacey A. Langwick ...
    This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • Medicines That Feed Us

    Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

    par Stacey A. Langwick ...
    Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Expanding on the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • African Medical Pluralism

    par Carolyn Sargent, Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, John M. Janzen, Susan J. Rasmussen, Stacey A. Langwick, Christopher Taylor, Elisha P. Renne0, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf1, Ulrika Trovalla2, Benson Mulemi3, James Leslie Kennell4 ...
    In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Female Erasure

    What You Need To Know About Gender Politics' War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

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    FEMALE ERASURE is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today disguised as progressive politics.This anthology comes at a time when gender identity politics and profits from an emerging medical transgenderism industry for children, teens, and adults ... En savoir plus

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