As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of
HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in
prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration,
however, are far from settled and continually contested. As
"Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe" demonstrates, serious questions
continue to linger in the medical community since the explosion of
the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are healers obstacles to
health development? Do their explanations for the disease disregard
biomedical science? Can the worlds of traditional healing and
modern medicine coexist and cooperate?
Combining anthropological, historical, and public health
perspectives, "Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe" explores the
intersection of African healing traditions and Western health
development, emphasizing the role of this historical relationship
in current debates about HIV/AIDS. Drawing on diverse sources
including colonial records, missionary correspondence,
international health policy reports, and interviews with
traditional healers, anthropologist David S. Simmons demonstrates
the remarkable adaptive qualities of these disparate communities as
they try to meet the urgent needs of the people.
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