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The Problem of Money: African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana Bernhard Bierlich
The Problem of Money: African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana
Bernhard Bierlich
Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He also describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states.
248 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9781845453510 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 235 × 20 mm · 503 g |
| Language | English |