The problem of money : African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana /: African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bernhard Bierlich.
• Other Names: Bierlich, Bernhard, 1963-
• Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Preface Chapter 1. 'New' and Enduring Social and Economic Formations Continuity With the Past or 'Tradition' ; 1.1 The Land and the People; 1.2 History, Politics and Religion; 1.3 A Bilateral People?; 1.4 The Local Scene Negotiating the Future and the Global Economy ; 1.5 Women in a Male-Oriented Society; 1.6 Women, the Household and the Economy Chapter 2. Powers of the Person ; 2.1 The Individual and the Sway of Maternal Kinship; 2.2 The Morality of Witchcraft and Medicines: The Contrast of Legitimacy and Gender; 2.3 Enchanted Modernity and Witchcraft Chapter 3. Basic Concepts of Health and Illness ; 3.1 Illness: The Environment, the Living and the Dead; 3.2 Common Illness; 3.3 Ideas about the Body, Heart, Stomach and Common Symptoms; 3.4 What is Illness?; 3.5 Diagnosing Symptoms; 3.6 Protection and the Occult Chapter 4. Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization ; 4.1 What is Medicine?; 4.2 Tim; 4.3 Images of Medicines; 4.4 Classification of Medicines; 4.5 Naming Medicines; 4.6 Plants, Western Pharmaceuticals and Islamic Medicines; 4.7 Treatment Choices: Magical and Non-Magical Medicines; 4.8 Medicines, Modernity and Commoditization; 4.9 A Note on the Provision of Medical Care in the Nineties Chapter 5. The Herbalist, Medical Pluralism and the Cultural Patterning of Illness ; 5.1 The Local Curer and His Plants; 5.2 The Cultural Construction of Medical Knowledge: Becoming a Herbalist; 5.3 Medical Pluralism in Dagomba; 5.4 Biopower and the Cultural Patterning of Illness; 5.5 Medical Knowledge and Medical Culture Chapter 6. Health, Wealth and Magic ; 6.1 Health, Wealth and Magic; 6.2 The Modernity of Divination: The Power of Lotteries Chapter 7. A Woman's Lot: the Practical Realities of Care ; 7.1 The Dominant Voice: Men's Control of Local Medicines; 7.2 The Structure of the Quest for Medicine: 'Begging for Medicine'; 7.3 Ideology and Practice: Women, the Future and Decision Making; 7.4 The Ethics of Care and the Female Strategy of Child Care Chapter 8. The Problem of Money: Money and Medicine ; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Wealth, Health and the Community; 8.3 Monetary and Non-Monetary Transactions in Dagomba; 8.4 Contexts of Curing or the Problem of Money in Medicine; 8.5 'Money Spoils the Medicine'; 8.6 The (Im)morality of Medicines: Medicine-Sellers and Drug Peddlers; 8.7 'Money Spoils the Medicine': Ideology and Practice; 8.8 'Money Spoils the Medicine' Revisited; 8.9 Healing and 'The Problem of Money' Conclusion Appendices ; 1. The Burden of Illness; 2. Patterns of Medicine Use References; Glossary; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 228 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 306.4/61; Medical anthropology -- Ghana -- Dagomba; Traditional medicine -- Ghana -- Dagomba; Medical innovations -- Economic aspects -- Ghana -- Dagomba; Medical innovations -- Social aspects -- Ghana -- Dagomba; Medicine, African Traditional; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Socioeconomic Factors; Interpersonal Relations; Social Change; Magic; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; Manners and customs; Medical anthropology; Medical innovations -- Economic aspects; Medical innovations -- Social aspects; Traditional medicine; Dagomba; Interkulturalität; Kulturübertragung; Marktmacht; Medizinische Versorgung; Volksmedizin; Ethnomedizin; Dagomba (Ghana) -- Social life and customs; Ghana; Ghana -- Dagomba; Dagomba; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782388739; 1782388737
• Related ISBNs: 9781845453510; 1845453514
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.