Traditional African Bonesetters and Western Medical Practitioners - (Hardcover)

About the Book

Traditional Bone Setting (TBS) has long held prominent sway in African healthcare, particularly in the more remote and pastoral expanses of Africa. This unique interdisciplinary religious, human rights, and sociological study of medicine manuscript is an examination of not only generationally inherited ethnobotanical, pharmacognosy TBS traditions - but also direct observations on how current surgical orthopedic medicine and modern-day social mechanisms clash with traditional healthcare approaches in contemporaneous and inexorable ways.

About the Author

Roxane Richter is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at the School of Public Health, University of Louisville. She has been distinguished as a Fulbright Specialist in Medical Mass Casualty Planning & Response (Ghana), U.S. Embassy Ambassador Distinguished Scholar (University of Gondar, Ethiopia), and a Fulbright-Fogarty NIH Postdoctoral Global Health Fellow (Sub-Saharan Africa).
Dr. Thomas Max Flowers is a certified emergency physician with the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 1992. He currently practices Emergency Medicine at Commonwealth Health Care Corporation public hospital in Saipan, CNMI.
Elias Kifon Bongmba is a Professor of African Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas; Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology; Professor of Religion, Faculty Assoc.
Dr. Ananya Kassahun Admasu is an Assistant professor in Orthopedics, FCS(Ortho) ECSA. Dr. Admasu is an Assistant Professor in Orthopedics Lecturer, Orthopedic and Trauma Consultant College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia.