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- Like new
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- Personalize
- No
- Subject Area
- Medicine
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Personalized
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- Intermediate
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- Adults
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
1498581560
ISBN-13
9781498581561
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038412803
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
130 Pages
Publication Name
Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia : from Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies
Language
English
Subject
Health Care Delivery, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, Medical
Series
Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-954044
Reviews
Pino Schirripa presents the reader with an amazingly comprehensive ethnography of the ways in which both traditional and synthetic medicines are produced, distributed, prescribed, and used in Ethiopia, unraveling the historical processes, knowledge systems, and power relations that shape these practices. Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia builds on decades of engagement with these issues in Ethiopia -- offering the reader the best of what long-term fieldwork has to offer., Italian anthropologist Schirripa describes and analyzes the "plural" system of medical care in Ethiopia (where different therapeutic traditions compete), adopting the term "medicine" to include all materials used for such care, whether produced by traditional means or synthesized as modern pharmaceuticals. Having spent six years in Tigray observing medical care, including care as delivered by traditional healers and as obtained through biomedical agency, and having interviewed numerous subjects including family members, religious healers, and herbalists, Schirripa provides an excellent discussion of traditional medicine in Ethiopia, exposing influences from many continents. Schirripa emphasizes that recourse to one type of medicine does not necessarily express ideology, but is influenced by financial constraints within a context of inequality. For example, he contrasts two interview scenarios: one of a poor family with one HIV-positive child who receives free medical care and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals., Italian anthropologist Schirripa describes and analyzes the "plural" system of medical care in Ethiopia (where different therapeutic traditions compete), adopting the term "medicine" to include all materials used for such care, whether produced by traditional means or synthesized as modern pharmaceuticals. Having spent six years in Tigray observing medical care, including care as delivered by traditional healers and as obtained through biomedical agency, and having interviewed numerous subjects including family members, religious healers, and herbalists, Schirripa provides an excellent discussion of traditional medicine in Ethiopia, exposing influences from many continents. Schirripa emphasizes that recourse to one type of medicine does not necessarily express ideology, but is influenced by financial constraints within a context of inequality. For example, he contrasts two interview scenarios: one of a poor family with one HIV-positive child who receives free medical care and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. e and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.e and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.e and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals., Italian anthropologist Schirripa describes and analyzes the "plural" system of medical care in Ethiopia (where different therapeutic traditions compete), adopting the term "medicine" to include all materials used for such care, whether produced by traditional means or synthesized as modern pharmaceuticals. Having spent six years in Tigray observing medical care, including care as delivered by traditional healers and as obtained through biomedical agency, and having interviewed numerous subjects including family members, religious healers, and herbalists, Schirripa provides an excellent discussion of traditional medicine in Ethiopia, exposing influences from many continents. Schirripa emphasizes that recourse to one type of medicine does not necessarily express ideology, but is influenced by financial constraints within a context of inequality. For example, he contrasts two interview scenarios: one of a poor family with one HIV-positive child who receives free medical care and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates the and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. essionals., Refusing the great divide between traditional medicine and biomedicine, Pino Schirippa takes us into the fascinating world of medicines, both herbal and synthetic, in Ethiopia. Through this incursion into a plural medical universe, where various therapeutic traditions compete, he skillfully initiates a stimulating reflection on the issue of inequalities in access to care., "Italian anthropologist Schirripa describes and analyzes the "plural" system of medical care in Ethiopia (where different therapeutic traditions compete), adopting the term "medicine" to include all materials used for such care, whether produced by traditional means or synthesized as modern pharmaceuticals. Having spent six years in Tigray observing medical care, including care as delivered by traditional healers and as obtained through biomedical agency, and having interviewed numerous subjects including family members, religious healers, and herbalists, Schirripa provides an excellent discussion of traditional medicine in Ethiopia, exposing influences from many continents. Schirripa emphasizes that recourse to one type of medicine does not necessarily express ideology, but is influenced by financial constraints within a context of inequality. For example, he contrasts two interview scenarios: one of a poor family with one HIV-positive child who receives free medical care and appropriate medications; another involving a child with severe mental and physical disabilities who receives almost no help except for his family's love and the herbs grown by his grandmother. . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- Choice Reviews ""Refusing the great divide between traditional medicine and biomedicine, Pino Schirippa takes us into the fascinating world of medicines, both herbal and synthetic, in Ethiopia. Through this incursion into a plural medical universe, where various therapeutic traditions compete, he skillfully initiates a stimulating reflection on the issue of inequalities in access to care."" --Sylvie Fainzang, National Institute of Health and Medical Research - France ""Pino Schirripa presents the reader with an amazingly comprehensive ethnography of the ways in which both traditional and synthetic medicines are produced, distributed, prescribed, and used in Ethiopia, unraveling the historical processes, knowledge systems, and power relations that shape these practices. Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia builds on decades of engagement with these issues in Ethiopia -- offering the reader the best of what long-term fieldwork has to offer."" --Anita Hardon, University of Amsterdam
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.109667
Table Of Content
Chapter 1. Medicines at the stakes, some thoughts on the currents debate Chapter 2. The medical system in Tigray Chapter 3. The social actors in the market of medicines in Tigray Chapter 4. Tactics, paradoxes, and inequalities
Synopsis
Pino Schirripa analyzes the production and distribution of medications in Ethiopia and examines how local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others., Based on Pino Schirripa's fieldwork, Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia traces the development of pharmaceutical products and medical remedies in the health sector. Schirripa analyzes the production and distribution of medications and examines how local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others. Schirripa's observations of Ethiopian healing systems and social relations provide new insight into the complex process of prescription.
LC Classification Number
RA395.E8S345 2019
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