Medicine and health in Africa. Multidisciplinary perspectives.

Sonst. Personen	Viterbo, Paula (Hrsg.); Ngalamulume, Kalala (Hrsg.)
Titel	Medicine and health in Africa. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Medizin und Gesundheit in Afrika. Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven.
Quelle	Berlin: Lit Verl. (2010), XI, 226 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Afrikanische Studien
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-8258-9226-5
Schlagwörter	Verhaltensänderung; Afrika; Gesundheit; Kenia; Krankheit; Ländlicher Raum; Medizin; Religiosität; Risiko; Senegal; Stigmatisierung; Tropen; Kolonialismus; Malawi; Ostafrika; Westafrika; Krankheit; Ländlicher Raum; Kolonialismus; AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); Gesundheit; Medizin; Entwicklungsland; Stigmatisierung; Religiosität; Risiko; Stigma; Jugendlicher; Afrika; Anglofones Afrika; Frankofones Afrika; Kenia; Malawi; Mosambik; Ostafrika; Senegal; Subsahara-Afrika; Südliches Afrika; Tropen; Westafrika
Abstract	"In the last two decades, the implosion of African economies under the burden of debt, the negative repercussions of the structural adjustment programs, the crisis of legitimacy, civil wars, and the collapse of some states resulted in a serious health crisis across the continent. Newly emerging diseases, such as Ebola virus and HIV/AIDS, killed and disabled millions. Some 'old diseases' such as yellow fever, tuberculosis, and Polio, have reappeared. Malaria, cholera, and meningitis continue to kill thousands. In many countries, the medical infrastructure has collapsed, while an increasing number of physicians and nurses have migrated to more hospitable places. Stigmatization of the affected people has compounded on previous social and racial discrimination, and has affected the implementation of national and international public health programs. The complexity of the situation requires an interdisciplinary approach. Including contributions by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and biologists, this essay collection emphasizes the social and cultural contexts of African health, paying particular attention to the history of the colonial public health system and its legacy. The essays included here were presented at the Health and Medicine in Africa Workshop, organized by the editors in April of 2005, at Bryn Mawr College." (author's abstract). Contents: Foreword (VII-VIII); Kalala Ngalamulume, Paula Viterbo: Introduction (1-10); Crystal Biruk: Is Culture Risky? Media Representations and Local Interpretations of Risk in Western Kenya (11-21); Zolani Ngwane: The Politics of HIV Education for Adolescents in South Africa (22-39); Susan Cotts Watkins: Navigating the AIDS Epidemic in Rural Malawi (40-77); Evelyne Shuster: HIV/AIDS in Africa: No More Slogans (78-102); Laura McGough: Stigma and the Political Economy of Disease: The Neglected Dimension of Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma (103-116); Judith Porter: Comments on Stigma and Behavior Change: Implications for HIV Prevention (117-123); James L. A. Webb, Jr.: Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa (124-146); Faith Wallace-Gadsden, Iruka Okeke: Drug Resistant Bacteria and Childhood Diarrhea in Africa (147-155); Kalala Ngalamulume: Classify and Sequestrate: The Regulation of Madness in Saint-Louis du Sénégal, 1890-1914 (156-176); James Pfeiffer: Commodity Fetichismo, the Holy Spirit, and the Turn to Pentecostal and African Independent Churches in Central Mozambique (177-209); Jonathan Sadowsky: The Long Shadow of Colonialism: Why We Study Medicine in Africa (210-217).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2012/1