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The Professionalisation Of African Medicine
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Author : Murray Last
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
The Professionalisation Of African Medicine written by Murray Last and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1986, this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine, and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared.
Traditional Medicine In Africa
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Author : Isaac Sindiga
language : en
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Release Date : 1995
Traditional Medicine In Africa written by Isaac Sindiga and has been published by East African Educ. Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Africa categories.
The inaccessibility of biomedicine to most of Africa's population because of escalating costs has necessitated a search for alternative ways of managing illnesses. Traditional medicine, which has always been practised in the indigenous cultures, is fast filling this therapeutic gap. This book is a collection of essays based on a multidisciplinary approach to traditional medicine in Africa. It has contributions from social scientists, natural resource experts, traditional medical practitioners, educationists, and medical scholars. It attempts to define the problems of traditional medicine in Africa, while also discussing the conceptual foundations of African ethnomedicine and medical pluralism.
African Traditional Medicine
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Author : Hans Dieter Neuwinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
African Traditional Medicine written by Hans Dieter Neuwinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Materia medica, Vegetable categories.
This book documents the traditional knowledge and use of African medicinal plants. In total more than 5,400 plants from south of the Sahara to the Cape are listed and over 16,300 medicinal applications with plant part, details on method of preparation and dosage.
African Traditional Medicine
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Author : C. A. Dime
language : en
Publisher: EDO State University
Release Date : 1995
African Traditional Medicine written by C. A. Dime and has been published by EDO State University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Psychology categories.
Healing Traditions
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Author : Karen E. Flint
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-21
Healing Traditions written by Karen E. Flint and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-21 with History categories.
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different relations to state power. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948 provides a long-overdue historical perspective to these interactions and an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges. Between 1820 and 1948 traditional healers in Natal, South Africa, transformed themselves from politically powerful men and women who challenged colonial rule and law into successful entrepreneurs who competed for turf and patients with white biomedical doctors and pharmacists. To understand what is “traditional” about traditional medicine, Flint argues that we must consider the cultural actors and processes not commonly associated with African therapeutics: white biomedical practitioners, Indian healers, and the implementing of white rule. Carefully crafted, well written, and powerfully argued, Flint’s analysis of the ways that indigenous medical knowledge and therapeutic practices were forged, contested, and transformed over two centuries is highly illuminating, as is her demonstration that many “traditional” practices changed over time. Her discussion of African and Indian medical encounters opens up a whole new way of thinking about the social basis of health and healing in South Africa. This important book will be core reading for classes and future scholarship on health and healing in Africa.
Handbook Of African Medicinal Plants Second Edition
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Author : Maurice M. Iwu
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Handbook Of African Medicinal Plants Second Edition written by Maurice M. Iwu and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Health & Fitness categories.
With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications. The first part of the book contains a catalog of the plants used as ingredients for the preparation of traditional remedies, including their medicinal uses and the parts of the plant used. This is followed by a pharmacognostical profile of 170 of the major herbs, with a brief description of the diagnostic features of the leaves, flowers, and fruits and monographs with botanical names, common names, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, ethnomedicinal uses, chemical constituents, and reported pharmacological activity. The second part of the book provides an introduction to African traditional medicine, outlining African cosmology and beliefs as they relate to healing and the use of herbs, health foods, and medicinal plants. This book presents scientific documentation of the correlation between the observed folk use and demonstrable biological activity, as well as the characterized constituents of the plants.
Medicinal Plants And Traditional Medicine In Africa
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Author : Abayomi Sofowora
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1982
Medicinal Plants And Traditional Medicine In Africa written by Abayomi Sofowora and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Medical categories.
Suturing New Medical Histories Of Africa
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Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2013
Suturing New Medical Histories Of Africa written by Nancy Rose Hunt and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Africa categories.
'Suturing' suggests closing a wound, making an incision, editing a film, or stitching together parts, locations, and points of view. The word is a helpful one for today's historians of disease, suffering, and medical practice in Africa. Whether focusing on a hospital or shrine, on malaria, trauma, witchcraft, or nursing, historians are grappling in new ways with the problems of joining locations and viewpoints, of tethering pasts with the present. New challenges arise when thinking about Africa's place in today's world of global health and biosecurity, war zones and heritage monies, emerging medical markets and self-treatment devices. Suturing points to new kinds of creativity with sources, evidence, and interactivity. As new digital capacities transform how history is engaged and produced, the word suturing helps to draw attention to the question of audiences and publics for African medical histories in the 21st century, as demonstrated in this book. (Series: Carl Schlettwein Lectures - Vol. 7)
African Traditional Medicine
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Author : Philemon Omerenma Amanze
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2011-11-17
African Traditional Medicine written by Philemon Omerenma Amanze and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-17 with Medical categories.
AFRICAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AMONG SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS: ? Revealed that African traditional medicine could be used in the explicable or inexplicable form. ? Examined the veracity of the claim that the practice and use of African traditional medicine amounted to idolatry, ? Identified the patterns and extent of the practice and use of traditional medicine among the Seventh-day Adventists in particular and Christians in general, ? Analyzed the social, economic and spiritual impacts of the practice and use of traditional medicine on Seventh-day Adventists and other Christians. ? Discussed the interplay between African traditional medical practices and Western medical practices in the health care delivery system of the Seventh-day Adventists. ? Discovered that Seventh-day Adventists use the explicable form of African traditional medicine to meet their health needs because it was affordable, available and effective to meet their health needs. ? Demonstrated that using the explicable form of African traditional medicine to meet the health needs of Seventh-day Adventists is supported by the Bible and Ellen G. White, who said among other things that: God has caused to grow out of the ground, herbs for the use of man, and if we understand the nature of these roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running to the doctor so frequently, and people would be in much better health than they are today. (Selected Messages, bk. 2, pp. 297-298)
African Indigenous Medical Knowledge And Human Health
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Author : Charles Wambebe
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-01-29
African Indigenous Medical Knowledge And Human Health written by Charles Wambebe and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Medical categories.
Despite the relevance of and empirical evidence for African Traditional Medicine, based on African Indigenous Medical Knowledge (AIMK), research and development of new phytomedicines from this continent has been slow. African Indigenous Medical Knowledge and Human Health aims to provide a catalyst for health innovations based on the rich African biodiversity and AIMK. The book documents some of the success stories from the continent related to AIMK and serves as a one-step reference for all professionals interested in the research and development of medical interventions - including pharmacognosists, ethnobiologists, botanists, phytochemists, pharmacologists and medical scientists.