TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bierlich,Bernhard
TI  - The Problem of Money: African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana 
SN  - 9781845453510
AV  - GN655.G45 
U1  - 306.4/61 22/eng/20240417
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Magic
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Dagomba
KW  - Medical innovations
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social change
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology, Development Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1 ‘New’ and Enduring Social and Economic Formations --; 2 Powers of the Person --; 3 Basic Concepts of Health and Illness --; 4 Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization --; 5 The Herbalist, Medical Pluralism and the Cultural Patterning of Illness --; 6 Health, Wealth and Magic --; 7 A Woman’s Lot: the Practical Realities of Care --; 8 The Problem of Money: Money and Medicine --; Conclusion --; Appendices --; References --; Glossary --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people’s choices of “traditional” (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and ”modern” therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388739
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782388739
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782388739/original
ER  -