Medicine Faith And Politics In Agogo

Author : Pascal Schmid
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643802613

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Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo by Pascal Schmid Pdf

Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo examines the development of health care delivery at a former mission hospital in Ghana. It reveals the configurations of interests, values, and ideologies that shaped the development and implementation of health care practices, strategies, and concepts. By providing an in-depth analysis, the book contributes a particular perspective on the history of health care delivery in rural Africa and beyond. It addresses topics that are still heavily under-researched. These include the 'decolonisation' of health care as well as the development and implementation of medical concepts for 'developing countries' such as primary health care. Dissertation. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses, Vol. 13) [Subject: African Studies, History, Religious Studies, Health Care Studies, Sociology]

Author : Benjamin Bronnert Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780228011590

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Religion in Global Health and Development by Benjamin Bronnert Walker Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are strikingly limited. Uncovering the points where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century, focusing on Ghana, provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches. In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows that the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the turn of the twenty-first century. Walker surveys the establishment of colonial development projects in the twentieth century, with a focus on the period between 1940 and 1990. Crossing the colonial-postcolonial divide, analyzing local contexts in conjunction with the many layers of international organizations, and identifying surprisingly neglected streams of personnel and funding (particularly from Dutch and West German Catholics), this in-depth history offers new ways of conceptualizing global health. Patchworks of international humanitarian intervention, fragmented government services, local communities, and the actions of many foreign powers combined to create health services and the state in Ghana. Religion in Global Health and Development shows that religion and religious actors were critical to this process – socially, culturally, and politically.

Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031271281

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Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim Pdf

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

Author : Matteo Landricina
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643909725

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Nkrumah and the West by Matteo Landricina Pdf

The developmental years of Ghana - the first state to become independent from colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa in 1957 - were marked by the United Kingdom's effort to showcase its former colony as a model of successful democracy export for the rest of Black Africa. They called it the "Ghana Experiment". Major Western powers like the United States and West Germany participated in the attempt to keep Ghana aligned with the West. As Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a bold anti-imperialistic, pan-African policy, Britain and the United States concerted a common strategy which accelerated Nkrumah's eventual downfall in 1966 and brought Ghana back into the Western sphere of influence.

Author : ALBERT KAZAURA TIBAIJUKA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643853660

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MULTINATIONAL MINES AND COMMUNITIES OF PLACE by ALBERT KAZAURA TIBAIJUKA. Pdf

Author : Yaw Ofosu-Kusi,Motoji Matsuda
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551750

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The Challenge of African Potentials by Yaw Ofosu-Kusi,Motoji Matsuda Pdf

This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been created, accumulated, unified, and deployed in the everyday experiences of Africans. The notion of Africas latent power/potential is not related to romanticisation of the traditional knowledge of African society and its institutions as fixed, essentialised magic wands. This notion also raises objections against political dogmas that seek to smoke out and eliminate thought and values originating in Western modernity. The keyword of the Accra Forum was futurity. Africas future is laden with possibilities, latent power, and potential. It is bright and hopeful but, simultaneously, bleak and thought-provoking. For nascent democracies and economically challenged communities, the value of this potential lies not in its static qualities but in how these qualities can be harnessed and translated into beneficial practical outcomes. As a concept, potential connotes a time to come; a futurity that is full of known and unknown possibilities, challenges, and opportunities.

Author : Barbara Drosten
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910417

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Self-Efficacy Shapes Modernization by Barbara Drosten Pdf

Self-efficacy (SE) is the critical link between environment, culture, institutions, modernization, and development. It enables adaptive learning from environmental stimuli, and fosters agency, cooperation, goal setting, openness, opportunity recognition, and longer-term planning. SE can be regarded as fertilizer for any policy measure. Research amongst smallholder farmers in South Ghana shows that historical return on investment culturally bequeathed investment SE, which largely influences today's farming investment and household income. SE is well malleable and perceptive to intentional promotion.

Author : Sabina Widmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004469617

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Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979 by Sabina Widmer Pdf

In Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979, Sabina Widmer analyses Swiss foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia in the late 1960s and 1970s, at the crossroads of the global East-West confrontation and decolonisation. Focusing on the independence wars in Angola and Mozambique, the Angolan War and the Ogaden War as well as regime changes that brought Soviet-allied governments to power, this book sheds new light on Switzerland’s role in the Third World during the Cold War. Based on extensive multi-archival research, it exposes the limits of neutrality in North-South relations, reveals the growing marge de manoeuvre of small states during Détente, and highlights the role of non-state actors in the making of foreign policy.

Author : Abdoulaye Sounaye,Frédérick Madore
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643964298

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Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa by Abdoulaye Sounaye,Frédérick Madore Pdf

This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.

Author : Patrick Ziltener,Christian Suter
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643803320

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African-Asian Relations: Past, Present, Future by Patrick Ziltener,Christian Suter Pdf

Is the impression of a new dynamism in African-Asian relations empirically correct? Is it a process that will once be accepted as one of the fundamental transformations of World Society in the 21st century? This volume addresses these questions in 14 chapters, from a look back to 2000 years of African-Asian contacts and exchange to the analysis of the origins of this new inter-regional dynamism. On the Asian side, the focus is on China, which has - with the Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC), the Belt and Road Initative with numerous infrastructure projects, development assistance, resource deals, and the support for the African Union in Africa - drawn most attention, but also recent initiatives by India and South Korea are described. On the African side, the recent developments in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Angola, Guinea, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa are analyzed in detail, with a special focus on the various impacts of the recent and ongoing projects and initiatives and the conditions under which they exert developmental or detrimental economic, Do we witness the repetition of past mistakes of development policies at higher level, or is this time everything different?

Author : Thomas Bearth,Djouroukoro Diallo
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643802811

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African multilingualism and the Agenda 2030 / Multilinguisme africain et l'Agenda 2030 by Thomas Bearth,Djouroukoro Diallo Pdf

The UN Agenda 2030 read as an expression of a commitment to predefined goals, raises the question of a link, between failure to provide for needs of linguistic inclusion on the one hand and lingering deficits of adhesion on the other. Stated as a key factor for implementation sensitivity to language diversity correlates positively with inclusivity and sustainability, as this volume explains through case studies ranging from agriculture to health, education, human rights and ecology, and from digital inclusion to translation and science, thus enabling comparative advantages to turn language barriers into interfaces for `glocal' development.

Author : Tizian Zumthurm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004436978

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Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965 by Tizian Zumthurm Pdf

Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.

Author : Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daily Graphic by Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh Pdf

Author : Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 1947172905

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Introduction to Sociology 2e by Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones Pdf

"Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book's conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today's students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface."--Website of text.

Author : Sam Clegg
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daily Graphic by Sam Clegg Pdf