Descrizione
The volume examines the birth and development of the health system in Ghana and Uganda through a historical-anthropological analysis that goes from colonialism to current health policies. The double disciplinary lens of anthropology and history highlights the complex interrelation between medicine and institutions, between different therapeutic traditions and political demands but above all between Global Health and Public Health. To what extent is the new health system facilitating the processes of democratization? To what extent is the neoliberal turn leading to a reform of the health system capable of truly reducing social suffering and addressing epidemics and contagions that continue to tear African territories apart?
