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Markets of Well-being

Markets of Well-being

Navigating Health and Healing in Africa

by Marleen Dekker and Rijk van Dijk
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/12/2010

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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.
ISBN:
9789004201101
9789004201101
Category:
Society & culture: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-12-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
318
Dimensions (mm):
240x160mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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