Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers

by David S. Simmons

As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration, however, are far from settled and continually contested. As Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe demonstrates, serious questions continue to linger in the medical community since the explosion of the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are healers obstacles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826518079
• ISBN13: 9780826518071
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"