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The Problem of Money - African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana (Hardcover, New)
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The Problem of Money - African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana (Hardcover, New)
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Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern
Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender,
and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African
setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical
for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "traditional"
(local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms
and various written solutions) and "modern" therapy (biomedicine,
in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the
rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these
areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist
discourse of local markets, regional economies and national
structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but
often originate in global and multinational markets.
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