Markets of Well-Being

Navigating Health and Healing in Africa
Herausgeber: Dekker, Marleen; Dijk, Rijk Van

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9789004201101
• ISBN-10: 9004201106
• Artikelnr.: 34707184

Autorenporträt

Marleen Dekker, PhD (2004), is a senior researcher in development economics at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. She has worked extensively on social networks and risk-coping strategies in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Togo. Rijk van Dijk, PhD (1992), is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. His research focuses on the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization and transnational connections.