{"product_id":"the-problem-of-money-bernhard-bierlich-9781845453510","title":"The Problem of Money: African Agency \u0026 Western Medicine in Northern Ghana","description":"\u003cp\u003e Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of \"traditional\" (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and \"modern\" therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernhard Bierlich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845453514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845453510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Library Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Bernhard Bierlich","offers":[{"title":"Library Binding","offer_id":48088880251135,"sku":"9781845453510","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2498250-b445-4d01-9a4d-b3291cf27ab9.jpg?v=1769107053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-problem-of-money-bernhard-bierlich-9781845453510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}