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Markets of Well-being. Navigating health and healing in Africa

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  • Marleen Dekker
    (African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, The Netherlands)

  • Rijk van Dijk
    (African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, The Netherlands)

Abstract

Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people’s well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse academic backgrounds, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets and the way medical staff, patients, households and institutions navigate them in their quest for well-being. By presenting a detailed economic ethnography of this multifacetted process of navigating the market, the book sets a new agenda for research as a result of the current predicaments facing health and healing in African societies.

Suggested Citation

  • Marleen Dekker & Rijk van Dijk (ed.), 2010. "Markets of Well-being. Navigating health and healing in Africa," ASC Economic Books, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), Leiden, The Netherlands, volume 9, number md001, 07-2018.
    • Handle: RePEc:asc:ecobks:md001
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    Cited by:

    1. Frederick Golooba-Mutebi & Yvonne Habiyonizeye, 2018. "Delivering maternal health services in Rwanda: The role of politics," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-106-18, GDI, The University of Manchester.

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    Keywords

    well-being; health care; healing;
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    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General

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