Author: Development Policy Centre (Ibadan, Nigeria)
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Roberts
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0253057922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Sharing the Burden of Sickness, Jonathan Roberts examines the history of the healing cultures in Accra, Ghana. When people are sick in Accra, they can pursue a variety of therapeutic options. West African traditional healers, spiritual healers from the Islamic and Christian traditions, Western clinical medicine, and an open marketplace of over-the-counter medicine provide ample means to promote healing and preventing sickness. Each of these healing cultures had a historical point of arrival in the city of Accra, and Roberts tells the story of how they intertwined and how patients and healers worked together in their struggle against disease. By focusing on the medical history of one place, Roberts details how urban development, colonization, decolonization, and independence brought new populations to the city, where they shared their ideas about sickness and health. Sharing the Burden of Sickness explores medical history during important periods in Accra's history. Roberts not only introduces readers to a wide range of ideas about health but also charts a course for a thoroughly pluralistic culture of healing in the future, especially with the spread of new epidemics of HIV/AIDS and ebola.
Author: B. Olabimpe Aboyade
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789788003182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789211313468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher: GIGA-Hamburg
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783928049269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Adésínà
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-07-12
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0230590985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.
Author: G. Jan Van Apeldoorn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1040017770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the basic cause of the increasing vulnerability of the Nigerian rural poor during the 1970s to the effects of drought, in order to show the lessons of the crisis and how they could be translated into medium-term action. The author argued that an analysis of the causes and impact of the drought and famine disaster of the seventies could offer useful clues to the policy orientations necessary to avert a protracted food crisis in the region