Scientists, Healers and Bioprospectors: The Epistemological Politics of Traditional Medicine in Ethi...

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" Scientists, Healers and Bioprospectors: The Epistemological Politics of Traditional Medicine in Ethiopia, 1930-1998 "
Hill, Rachael Anita Roberts, Richard

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1055575
Doc. No	:	TL54692
Main Entry	:	Hill, Rachael Anita
Title & Author	:	Scientists, Healers and Bioprospectors: The Epistemological Politics of Traditional Medicine in Ethiopia, 1930-1998\ Hill, Rachael Anita Roberts, Richard
College	:	Stanford University
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	341 p.
Abstract	:	This dissertation examines local efforts to study, develop and regulate traditional medicine in Ethiopia from 1940-1998. This period (1940-1998) marks the formation of traditional medicine as an object of scientific inquiry and a legal creation—a category of knowledge defined and regulated by the state. The author argues that in Ethiopia, therapeutic pluralism is a longstanding feature of the therapeutic landscape and not simply a consequence of the introduction of biomedicine. Legislative and scientific initiatives that coalesced around traditional medicine were often in tension with the pluralistic and complex intellectual history of Ethiopian therapeutic practice. Public health officials and scientists who sought to codify, categorize and distinguish between "good" and "bad" therapeutic practice were part of a larger effort to shape Ethiopia into a "modern" nation-state. Ethiopian medicinal plant researchers were also part of a global story about the growing scientific interest in medicinal plants on the part of bioprospectors and conservationists. The author combines the use of oral interviews and ethnographic observation with an analysis of archival material in Amharic to situate Ethiopia in both its local and global contexts and understand why traditional medicine became a national priority when it did.
Descriptor	:	African history
	:	North African studies
Added Entry	:	Roberts, Richard
Added Entry	:	Stanford University