The Problem of Money
eBook - PDF

The Problem of Money

African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Problem of Money

African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana

About this book

Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "traditional" (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and "modern" therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781782388739
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. The Problem of Money
  2. CONTENTS
  3. FOREWORD
  4. PREFACE
  5. Chapter 1. ‘NEW’ AND ENDURING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FORMATIONS
  6. Chapter 2. POWERS OF THE PERSON
  7. Chapter 3. BASIC CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
  8. Chapter 4. MEDICINES, MODERNITY AND COMMODITIZATION
  9. Chapter 5. THE HERBALIST, MEDICAL PLURALISM AND THE CULTURAL PATTERNING OF ILLNESS
  10. Chapter 6. HEALTH, WEALTH AND MAGIC
  11. Chapter 7. A WOMAN’S LOT: THE PRACTICAL REALITIES OF CARE
  12. Chapter 8. THE PROBLEM OF MONEY: MONEY AND MEDICINE
  13. CONCLUSION
  14. APPENDIX
  15. REFERENCES
  16. GLOSSARY
  17. INDEX