{"product_id":"health-healing-and-illness-in-african-history-9781474254373","title":"Health, Healing and Illness in African History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Rebekah Lee offers a critical introduction to the diverse history of health, healing and illness in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1800s to the present day. Its focus is not simply on disease but rather on how illness and health were \u003ci\u003eunderstood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003emanaged\u003c\/i\u003e: by healthcare providers, African patients, their families and communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a sustained interdisciplinary approach, Lee brings to the foreground a cast of actors, institutions and ideas that both profoundly and intimately shaped African health experiences and outcomes. This book guides the reader through a wide range of historical source material, and highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations which have enriched this scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart One delivers a concise historical overview of African health and illness from the long 'pre-colonial' past through the colonial period and into the present day, providing an understanding of broad patterns - of major disease challenges, experiences of illness, and local and global health interventions - and their persistence or transformation across time. Part Two adopts a 'case study' approach, focusing on specific health challenges in Africa - HIV\/AIDS, mental illness, tropical disease and occupational disease - and their unfolding across time and space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHealth, Healing and Illness in African History\u003c\/i\u003e is the first wide-ranging survey of this key topic in African history and the history of health and medicine, and the ideal introduction for students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebekah Lee \u003c\/b\u003eis\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSenior Lecturer in History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437500633362,"sku":"9781474254373","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_717f0e8a-68b2-41a1-81d7-9bac5fb40faf.jpg?v=1729644470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/health-healing-and-illness-in-african-history-9781474254373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}