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How Western medicine has transformed--and been transformed by--African culture

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""David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare... His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area which has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens."" Roderick Bush, St. John's University ""This well-researched and well-written book brings fresh perspectives on Western medicine in Africa and the development of African biomedicine."" Choice, August 2009 ""[A] delightful exploration of the contributions of African medicine in a fresh new perspective. It makes an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of cultural studies within world systems analysis."" - Journal of World-Systems Research ""David Baronov has published a book whose subject matter should appeal to Africanists in a number of different ways."" - African Studies

David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare... His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area which has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens. Roderick Bush, St. John's University This well-researched and well-written book brings fresh perspectives on Western medicine in Africa and the development of African biomedicine. Choice, August 2009 [A] delightful exploration of the contributions of African medicine in a fresh new perspective. It makes an outstanding contribution to the emerging field of cultural studies within world systems analysis. - Journal of World-Systems Research

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David Baronov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College and is also the author of The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital and Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods.

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