The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries: Studies in Pharmaceutical AnthropologySjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte |
Contents
Introductory Note | 15 |
WOLFFERSTraditional Practitioners and Western Pharmaceuticals | 47 |
H KLOOS B GETAHUN A TEFERI K GEBRE TSADIK | 81 |
Pharmacists and their Clients in | 107 |
S VAN DER GEESTThe Articulation of Formal and Informal | 131 |
A F AFDHAL AND R L WELSCHThe Rise of the Modern Jamu | 149 |
Introductory Note | 175 |
K SUSSMANThe Use of Herbal and Biomedical Pharmaceuticals | 199 |
A NIEHOFTraditional Medication at Pregnancy and Childbirth | 235 |
H BLEDSOE AND M F GOUBAUDThe Reinterpretation | 253 |
MACCORMACK AND A DRAPERCultural Meanings of Oral | 277 |
an Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine | 289 |
ETKINCultural Constructions of Efficacy | 299 |
Perspectives | 329 |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS | 367 |
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