Markets of Well-Being: Navigating Health and Healing in Africa - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9004201106 ISBN 13 : 9789004201101

Editeur : Brill, 2010

Synopsis

Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people's well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse academic backgrounds, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets and the way medical staff, patients, households and institutions navigate them in their quest for well-being. By presenting a detailed economic ethnography of this multifacetted process of navigating the market, the book sets a new agenda for research as a result of the current predicaments facing health and healing in African societies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marleen Dekker, PhD (2004), is a senior researcher in development economics at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. She has worked extensively on social networks and risk-coping strategies in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Togo.

Rijk van Dijk, PhD (1992), is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. His research focuses on the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization and transnational connections.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004201106
• ISBN 13: 9789004201101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Dekker Marleen, Dijk Rijk Van
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible