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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat 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.
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