David Baronov: The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>How Western medicine has transformed—and been transformed by—African culture<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592139156&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange</h1> <h3>David Baronov</h3> <P>cloth 1-59213-915-9 $54.50, Sep 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-917-5 $54.50 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 264 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens."</I> <BR>&#151<B>Roderick Bush</B>, St. John's University<i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>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. <I>The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange</I> 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.</P> <P>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.</P> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"This well-researched and well-written book brings fresh perspectives on Western medicine in Africa and the development of African biomedicine." </I> <br>&#151<b><i>Choice</b></i> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <br>Acknowledgements <br>1. The Origins of African Biomedicine <br>2. Dissecting Western Medicine <br>3. Biomedicine's Civilizing Mission <br>4. African Pluralistic Medicine and Its Biomedical Antecedents <br>5. African Biomedicine <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><B>David Baronov</B> is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College and is also the author of <I>The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital</i> and<i> Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods</I>.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/african_studies.html" TARGET="_top">African Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/health.html" TARGET="_top">Health and Health Policy</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592139156&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2009 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1998_reg.html</font></p>