From non-aligned medicines to market-based herbals: China's relationship to the shifting politics of traditional medicine in Tanzania

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-43

  Langwick, Stacey ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

(post)socialism; China; Neoliberalism; Tanzania; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; TANZANIA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHINA; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; SOCIALISM; TANZANIA;

EID: 77951228215     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740903517378     Document Type: Article

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