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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest - Temiar Music and Medicine by Marina Roseman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community she be ...Show more
White Plague, Black Labor - Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa by Randall M. Packard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the ...Show more
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