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AFRICAN MEDICAL PLURALISM This page intentionally left blank AFR ICAN MEDICAL PLUR ALISM Edited by William C. Olsen and C arolyn Sargent Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2017 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions consti- tutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum require- ments of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Olsen, William C., editor, author. | Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-editor, author. Title: African medical pluralism / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent. Description: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016045753 (print) | LCCN 2016046920 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253024770 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253024916 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253025098 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Integrative medicine—Africa, Sub-Saharan. | Medical care—Africa, Sub-Saharan. | Traditional medicine— Africa, Sub-Saharan. | Medical anthropology—Africa, Sub-Saharan. Classification: LCC R733 .A365 2017 (print) | LCC R733 (ebook) | DDC 615.0967—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045753 1 2 3 4 5 22 21 20 19 18 17 In memory of Madam Ama Agyemang; 192?–2015 Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Wife, Bonesetter, Midwife, Herbalist, part-time ɔkɔmfɔ This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent 1 Biomedicine and African Healing 1 Stacey Langwick: “The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge” 31 2 William C. Olsen: “Body and Sunsum: Stroke in Asante” 50 3 Susan J. Rasmussen: “Spirits and Pills Who Are Against Children: Medico-Rituals and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in a Tuareg Couple’s Quest for Parenthood” 69 4 John M. Janzen: “Science in the Moral Space of Health and Healing Paradigms in Western Equatorial Africa” 90 5 Brooke Grundfest Schoepf: “Medical Pluralism Revisted: A Memoir” 110 Symptoms and Therapeutic Pluralities 6 Ulrika Trovalla: “Wishful Doing: Journeying in a Nigerian Medical Landscape” 137 7 Koen Stroeken: “The Individualization of Illness: Bewitchment and the Mental in Postcolonial Tanzania” 151 8 Christopher C. Taylor: “Ihahamuka- PTSD in Post-Genocidal Rwanda: Culture, Continuity and Change in Rwandan Therapeutics” 170 Hospital Ethnography 9 Elisha Renne: “Ear Infections, Malnutrition, and Circuitous Health Care Treatments in Zaria, Nigeria” 187 10 Benson A. Mulemi: “Therapeutic Eclecticism and Cancer Care in a Kenyan Hospital Ward” 207 viii | Contents 11 Carolyn Sargent and James Leslie Kennell: “Elusive Paths, Fluid Care: Seeking Healing and Protection in the Republic of Benin” 227 12 Claire Wendland: “Legitimate Care, Dangerous Care, and Childbirth in an Urban African Community” 244 Afterword by Arthur Kleinman 261 Contributors 265 Index 267 AFRICAN MEDICAL PLURALISM
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