Kent Maynard

Making Kedjom Medicine

A History of Public Health and Well-Being in Cameroon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptions of medicine and medical practice among the Kedjom peoples in Cameroon embrace more than western biomedical understandings of medicine. For these peoples, medicine implies substances, knowledge, practices and institutions bound up with protection and intervention against misfortune and the active promotion of well-being. Nor are medical concerns primarily about the individual. Medicine in the precolonial era was a matter for groups. In short, medicine was preeminently public. Perhaps the major transformation since the colonial period and extending into the postcolonial, has been the increasing commercialization of "traditional" medicine as African healers shift their practices away from group concerns to a focus more concerned with treating the individual. Written in a lucid style, full of vibrant anecdotes, Maynard's book will appeal not only to medical anthropologists and development workers, but also to anyone interested in nonwestern medicine and practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780325071183
• ISBN-10: 0325071187
• Artikelnr.: 21413359

Autorenporträt

Kent Maynard

Inhaltsangabe

ContentsPrefaceviiAcknowledgmentsxix1Who Makes Kedjom Medicine?12Medicine
in the Kedjom Moral Landscape333Defining Kedjom Medicine, Public Health,
and Well-Being1034Colonial Preoccupations and Indigenous
Culture1715Medicine and the Ambivalent Church2236The Shallow Tradition of
###8220;Traditional Doctors###8221;2637The Moral Bases of Healing and the
Rising Tide of the Market3118Conclusions: A History of Well-Being in the
Grassfields355Glossary381Bibliography385Index401