African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
by
Karen E. Flint
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional...