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AFRICAN SEMINARS: SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE

Volume 5

THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF AFRICAN MEDICINE

THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF AFRICAN MEDICINE

Edited by
MURRAY LAST AND G. L. CHAVUNDUKA

First published in 1986 by Manchester University Press in association with the International African Institute

This edition first published in 2019
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1986 International African Institute

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ISBN: 978-1-138-33510-3 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44366-4 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-00049-3 (Volume 5) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44478-4 (Volume 5) (ebk)

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THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF AFRICAN MEDICINE

EDITED BY
Murray Last and G. L. Chavunduka

Copyright International African Institute 1986

Published by Manchester University Press
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.
and
51 Washington Street, Dover, N.H. 03802, U.S.A.

British Library cataloguing in publication data

The Professionalisation of African medicine.

(International African seminar studies; v. 1)

1. Folk medicineAfrica
I. Last, Murray II. Chavunduka, G. L. III. Series

615.882096 GR350

Library of Congress cataloging in publication data applied for

ISBN 0-7190-1851 X cased only

Photoset in Linotron Plantin by
Northern Phototypesetting Co., Bolton
Printed in England by
The Alden Press Ltd, Oxford

CONTENTS

Professional Signs

G. L. Chavunduka: Professor of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe; President, Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association; Chairman, Zimbabwe Government Traditional Medical Council. Author of Traditional Healers and the Shona Patient (Gweru, 1978), A Shona Urban Court (Gweru, 1980), The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (Harare, 1984). Address: University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Steven Feierman: Professor of History, University of Wisconsin. Author of The Shambaa Kingdom (Madison, 1974), Health and Society in Africa: a working bibliography (Waltham, 1979), Change in African therapeutic systems, Social Science and Medicine, 1979. Field work in Tanga, Tanzania 19668 and 197980. Address: Dept of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

Murray Last: Reader in Anthropology, University College London; formerly Professor of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria 197880. Author of The Sokoto Caliphate (London: Longmans Green, 1967); The presentation of sickness in a community of non-Muslim Hausa (in Loudon, ed., Social Anthropology and Medicine, London, 1976); The importance of knowing about not knowing, Social Science and Medicine, 1981. Fieldwork: Nigeria, 19617; 196972; 197880. Address: Dept of Anthropology, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England.

Carol MacCormack: Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Co-editor of Nature, Culture & Gender (Cambridge, 1980, with M. Strathern) and (with T. Vaskilampi), Folk Medicine and Health Culture (Kuopio, 1982); editor of Ethnography of Fertility & Birth (London, 1982), and author of Primary health care in Sierra Leone, Social Science and Medicine, 1984. Fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica and Burma. Address: Evaluation & Planning Centre for Health Care, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, England.

Jerome Msonthi: Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Malawi; Co-ordinator, Herbalists Associations of Malawi on Traditional Medicine; Member, Scientific Technical Committee, Italo-Africano Institute/WHO Centre for Traditional Medicine, Rome. Editor of The Physical Scientist (The Chemical Society of Malawi); author of over fifteen scientific papers and inventor of a new glucoside. Address: Chancellor College, PO Box 280, Zomba, Malawi.

D. D. O. Oyebola: Reader in Physiology, University of Ibadan. His MD thesis (Ibadan, 1977) was on traditional medical care among the Yoruba; subsequently he has published several papers on traditional midwifery (eg. East African Medical Journal, 1980;

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