Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 162
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4422-6739-8 • Hardback • September 2017 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-4422-6740-4 • Paperback • September 2017 • $39.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-4422-6741-1 • eBook • September 2017 • $37.00 • (£30.00)
Julian M. Murchison is head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. He has taught a wide range of courses, including Health & Illness, Ethnography of East Africa, and Ethnographic Research & Writing. He has conducted ethnographic research in Tanzania for more than fifteen years. He is the author of Ethnography Essentials (2009).
1: Background and Context
2: Medical Pluralism
3: Managing and Negotiating Therapy
4: Embodied Health and Illness
5: Power and Health
6: Alphabet Soup: The Effects of HIV/AIDS and ART
7: Conclusion
Murchison’s carefully crafted monograph, based on extensive fieldwork in southeastern Tanzania, blends straight-forward writing and lucid ethnographic case studies with medical anthropology’s conceptual legacy. This engaging work explains and applies terms such as medical pluralism, therapy management, therapeutic itinerary, embodiment, divination, narrative and more in paragraphs comprehensible to undergraduate students and scholars alike. Highly recommended.
— John M. Janzen, professor emeritus University of Kansas - Lawrence