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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32461-6

ISBN: 978-3-319-32460-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 1, 2017

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Public Health in Africa: Theoretical Framework

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 1 –77

[These are examined as parts of the health or medical systems from an historical perspective that enables the reader to link the present to the past and vice-versa.]
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African Traditional Therapeutics: Disease Causation, Agency, and Efficacy

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 79 –128

[This chapter purports not only to chronicle the existence of centuries-old health care practices that have served the African people, but also to assess their impact, importance, and future. The African continent is under immense pressure from Western-trained physicians, governments, and...
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Medicine, Culture, and People’s Options

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 129 –182

[From the introduction of European imperialism in Africa during the nineteenth century to the present, one of the continent’s casualties has been African medical practice and appreciation of its worth. Therefore, it is important to establish at the onset the fact that all medicine and disease...
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The Colonial Medical System(s) and the Health of Africans

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 183 –214

[We might agree that the health care systems prevalent in Africa today are a relic of the colonial past, primarily initiated during the nineteenth century. Following attainment of independence during the 1960s and 1970s, the new African sovereign states attempted to reverse the course of their...
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British “Health Effort” in Colonial Africa

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 215 –242

[This chapter covers the British obsession for the separation of Africans from Europeans in residential patterns in order to insulate the two from the one-way contagion of diseases (from Africans to Europeans) alleged by the Europeans during the period in which they declared wars on epidemic...
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Health: The French and Their Colonial Empire

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 243 –281

[It is generally agreed today among medical historians and anthropologists that the presence of Europeans during the first four decades of colonialism contributed to the deterioration of health conditions in Africa rather than to the improvement of the lives of its millions of inhabitants. Among...
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The Health of Africans: Portuguese, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, and German Rule

Azevedo, Mario J

Pages: 283 –330

[This chapter starts with a brief discussion of the demographic impact of the various colonial policies in Africa, which are said to have caused or were associated with the recurrence of famine and hunger and infertility, as well as the resulting depopulation in almost every colony, and the rapid...
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Colonial Rule: Missionaries and “Mercenaries” of Fortune and the Health of Africans

Azevedo, Mario J.

Pages: 331 –366

[Colonial authorities deliberately relied on the Church to make the imposed colonial system more acceptable to Africans by entrusting them with the educational system and the health care of the Africans through the introduction of biomedical practices as a hook to religious conversion, especially...

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