Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners Jeffrey Richards

Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners Jeffrey RichardsThis unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with Western care protocols. These long standing traditional vs. contemporary patient care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe were documented over eight years via one on one interviews with bonesetters, their patients, and in country orthopedic surgeons.

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