The Social Basis of Health and Healing in

Offers in 18 illuminating essays the first comprehensive account of health, disease, and healing practices on the African continent. The editors, both well-known scholars, also provide introductory overviews explaining why and how health and disease are related to historical, economic, and political phenomena. Combining historical and demographic perspectives, the distinguished contributors trace African "healing traditions" from the pre-colonial era to the present and from Morocco to South Africa, emphasizing the social and economic conditions linked to the spread of disease. Extensive bibliography.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Decline and Rise of African Population: The Social Context of Health and Disease	p. 25
The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso	p. 39
Famine Analysis and Family Relations: Nyasaland in 1949	p. 71
Socioeconomic Change and Disease: Smallpox in Colonial Kenya, 1880-1920	p. 90
Industrialization, Rural Poverty, and Tuberculosis in South Africa, 1850-1950	p. 104
Industrialization, Rural Health, and the 1944 National Health Services Commission in South Africa	p. 131
Therapeutic Traditions of Africa: A Historical Perspective	p. 163
Precolonial Medicine
Diffusion of Islamic Medicine into Hausaland	p. 177
Ideologies and Institutions in Precolonial Western Equatorial African Therapeutics	p. 195
Public Health in Precolonial East-Central Africa	p. 212
Colonial Medicine
Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa	p. 235
Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-1945	p. 256
Twentieth-Century African Medicine
Cold or Spirits? Ambiguity and Syncretism in Moroccan Therapeutics	p. 285
Causality of Disease among the Senufo	p. 315
A Modern History of Lozi Therapeutics	p. 339
Clinical Practice and Organization of Indigenous Healers in South Africa	p. 366
Kutambuwa Ugonjuwa: Concepts of Illness and Transformation among the Tabwa of Zaire	p. 376
The Importance of Knowing about Not Knowing: Observations from Hausaland	p. 393
Postcolonial Medicine
The Social Production of Health in Kenya	p. 409
Health Care and the Concept of Legitimacy in Sierra Leone	p. 426
Bibliography	p. 437
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