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The changing geography of traditional medicine: Urban herbalism on the Witwatersrand, South Africa

✍ Scribed by Rolf P. A. Dauskardt

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Weight: 970 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0343-2521
DOI: 10.1007/bf00192826

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✦ Synopsis

While medical geographers have generally ignored medical pluralism in developing countries, a small but significant geographical literature on traditional medicine has emerged. Progress for research by geographers on traditional medicine lies through a broader contextualisation of medical pluralism sensitive to the socio-economic and political context of health and disease. In this paper, a brief overview of medical pluralism in South Africa is presented. Issues surrounding the changing geography of traditional medicine are illustrated with reference to urban herbalism on the Witwatersrand.

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