{"product_id":"9780826518071","title":"Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV\/AIDS and Traditional Healers","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAs sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV\/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration, however, are far from settled and continually contested. As \u003ci\u003eModernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, serious questions continue to linger in the medical community since the explosion of the disease nearly thirty years ago. Are healers obstacles to health development? Do their explanations for the disease disregard biomedical science? Can the worlds of traditional healing and modern medicine coexist and cooperate?\u003cp\u003eCombining anthropological, historical, and public health perspectives, \u003ci\u003eModernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe\u003c\/i\u003e explores the intersection of African healing traditions and Western health development, emphasizing the role of this historical relationship in current debates about HIV\/AIDS. Drawing on diverse sources including colonial records, missionary correspondence, international health policy reports, and interviews with traditional healers, anthropologist David S. Simmons demonstrates the remarkable adaptive qualities of these disparate communities as they try to meet the urgent needs of the people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011917463792,"sku":"9780826518071","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826518071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}