Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948

摘要: In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by number practitioners patients' access treatment, biomedical looked toward country's healers as important agents development medical education treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two cultures embrace different ideas about body origin illness, but they do share a history commercial ideological competition relations state power. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, Competition Africa, 1820-1948 provides long-overdue historical perspective these interactions an understanding that is vital for strategies effectively deal with Africa's healthcare challenges. Between 1820 1948, Natal, transformed themselves from politically powerful men women who challenged colonial rule law into successful entrepreneurs competed turf patients white doctors pharmacists. Carefully crafted, well written, powerfully argued, Flint's analysis ways indigenous knowledge therapeutic practices were forged, contested, over centuries highly illuminating, her demonstration many "traditional" changed time. Her discussion Indian encounters opens up whole new way thinking social basis health healing Africa.