Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa by Vitalis Pemunta, Ngambouk

Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004436411)

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Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa by Vitalis Pemunta, Ngambouk

Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa

$186.00
Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa by Vitalis Pemunta, Ngambouk

Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa

$186.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government's post-apartheid policy framework of the ''return to tradition policy''. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government's initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers.

Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ''subaltern health narratives'' in designing health policy.

Author: Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta,Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang
ISBN-10: 9004436413
ISBN-13: 9789004436411
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.75d

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Choice 11/01/2021
By Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
By Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
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Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta, Ph.D, (2009), Central European University, is lecturer of Global Health at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg. He has (co-)authored three monographs and scholarly articles on sexual and reproductive health, and environmental governance.

Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang holds an MA in Social Anthropology from Walters Sisulu University, South Africa and is a doctoral candidate in the same field at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

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