Research Catalog

Title

Traditional and modern health systems in Nigeria / edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Falola, Toyin.
• Heaton, Matthew M.

Description

xvi, 468 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Medical care > Nigeria
• Social medicine > Nigeria
• Traditional medicine > Nigeria
• Medical care
• Delivery of Health Care
• Medicine, Traditional
• Nigeria
• health care
• medical sciences
• traditional medicine
• diseases
• conference papers (form)
• 2005
• Social medicine
• Traditional medicine
• Volksmedizin
• Gesundheitswesen
• Nigeria

Genre/Form

Aufgabensammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The redeemed AIDS Program Action Committee / Olufunke Adeboye -- The Catholic Church, social justice teachings and healthcare delivery in Nigeria / Anthony Attah Agbali -- Theater for HIV/AIDS counseling education among young people in Abuja / Barth O.Y. Oshionebo -- Health literacy and instructional strategies: a study among adult learners in Oyo State / Elizabeth Oluwakemi Augustus -- A review of the medicinal values of momordica charantia (bitter melon) in the management of illnesses / R.I. Bakare, O.A. Magbagbeola and A.I. Akinwande -- Comparative metabolic and histopathological effects of croton penduliflorus (a herbal abortifacient) and depo provera in non-pregnant and pregnant Dutch white rabbits / O.S. Odesanmi [and others].
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the modernization of the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria / Hakeem I. Tijani -- The press, politics and historical memory: the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 1957 in Lagos newspapers / Matthew M. Heaton -- Yoruba traditional family structure and HIV/AIDS patients / Joshua Aransiola -- Songs and politics of the lunatic: Okekwe's foray into the malaise of a nation / Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku -- Illness: environmental and political injustice in Tess Onwueme's Then she said it! / Juluette Bartlett-Pack -- Poverty and illness in Nigeria: a parable of conjoined twins / M.A.O. Aluko -- The medico-spiritual and historical origin of malaria disease / Sunday Olusola Aluko-Arowolo -- Notes on the clinical pharmacy practice in a hospital setting / Oladapo Augustus -- Indigenous medical and healthcare systems and the challenges of development in Africa / Ibrahim Waziri Abubakar.
• African health on sale: marketing strategies in the practice of traditional medicine in Southwestern Nigeria / Akíntúndé Akínyemí -- Ritualizing communal wellbeing: The Igala anthropology of healthcare and contemporary Nigerian healthcare delivery / Anthony Attah Agbali -- The traditional healing system among the Yoruba / Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe -- Health human capital condition: an analysis of the determinants in Nigeria / A.A. Adebayo and S.I. Oladeji -- Illness: causes and their meanings among the Yoruba of Nigeria / M.A.O. Aluko -- Cassava processing and its related health hazards / B.O. Akintunde and T.Y. Tunde-Akintunde -- Combatting the guineaworm scourge in Nigeria: an engineering approach / A.O. Coker and F.A. Olutoge -- Crime detection methods and health implications: forensic science versus the traditional African legal system / Oluyemisi Bamgbose.

ISBN

• 1592214525
• 9781592214525
• 1592214533
• 9781592214532

LCCN

2005037633

OCLC

• ocm62759369
• 62759369
• SCSB-14659315

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library