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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Medical Expertise and Africa |
Author: | MacLean, Una |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 78 |
Issue: | 312 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 331-337 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | medical sciences Health and Nutrition |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722144 |
Abstract: | The colonization of Africa with expensive drugs and high technology treatments and the education of specialists is on the increase. This article considers some of the medical needs in tropical Africa and alternative ways in which experts could contribute to supplying them. Because many of the leading causes of illness and death are closely bound up with custom, culture and human behaviour, the major contribution of medical experts in Africa should be with advice on the education of all those grades of people whose actual responsibility it will be to prevent illness and care for or cure established disease in their own countries. Notes. |