Dis-ease in the colonial state : medicine, society, and social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya
Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies.
Contributions in medical studies, no. 47
History
x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780313320033, 0313320039
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Introduction: Health and Healing in African History The AbaNyole of Western Kenya Christianity and First Culture Contact: Movement of Ideas and the Making of a New Social Formation in Bunyore The Colonial State, Health, and Healing in Bunyore Health and the African Rural World: Biomedical Visions and Re-visions Health and Healing in Bunyore: Experience and Meaning Index