
Markets of Well-being : Navigating Health and Healing in Africa.
Title:
Markets of Well-being : Navigating Health and Healing in Africa.
Author:
Dekker, Marleen.
ISBN:
9789004201286
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Series:
African Dynamics ; v.9
African Dynamics
Contents:
Markets of Well-being -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa -- 2 Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and the commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeria -- 3 Organizing monies: The reality and creativity of nursing on a hospital ward in Ghana -- 4 Market forces threatening schoolfeeding: The case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya -- 5 Dashed hopes and missedopportunities: Malaria controlpolicies in Kenya (1896-2009) -- 6 The market for healing and the elasticity of belief: Medical pluralism in Mpumalanga, South Africa -- 7 Medicinal knowledge and healingpractices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria -- 8 The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness -- 9 Individual or shared responsibility: The financing of medical treatment in rural Ethiopian households -- 10 Can't buy me health: Financial constraints and health-seeking behaviour in rural households in Central Togo -- 11 Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana -- List of authors.
Abstract:
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets for well-being. The chapters discuss how medical staff, patients and citizins navigate markets for health and healing.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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