The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
Author: Steven Feierman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1992-09-22
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0520066812

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These essays are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present.