The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
by: David Baronov
en | Temple University Press
1592139159 9781592139156 B001O5CYN6
The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
By David Baronov
Publisher: Temple University Press
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: 2008-09-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1592139159
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781592139156
Book Description:
Beginning with the colonial era, Western biomedicine has radically transformed African medical beliefs and practices. Conversely, in using Western biomedicine, Africans have also transformed it. The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange contends that contemporary African medical systems—no less “biomedical” than Western medicine—in fact greatly enrich and expand the notion of biomedicine, reframing it as a global cultural form deployed across global networks of cultural exchange.
The book analyzes biomedicine as a complex and dynamic sociocultural form, the conceptual premises of which make it necessarily subject to ongoing change and development as it travels the globe. David Baronov captures the complexities of this cultural exchange by using world-systems analysis in a way that places global cultural processes on equal footing with political and economic processes. In doing so, he both allows the story of Africa’s transformation of “Western” biomedicine to be told and offers new insights into the capitalist world system.
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