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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN AFRICA: MOVING BEYOND CULTURE - BERNHARD BIERLICH, The Problem of Money: African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn (hb £60 – 978 1 84545 351 0). 2007, 228 pp. - LIANNE HOLTEN, Mothers, Medicine and Morality in Rural Mali: an ethnographic study of therapy management of pregnancy and children's illness episodes. Zurich and Berlin: LIT Verlag (pb €29.90 – 978 3 643 90301 3). 2013, 237 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2014

URSULA M. READ
URSULA M. READ*
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgowursula.read@glasgow.ac.uk
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Africa , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , August 2014 , pp. 487 - 489
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Copyright © International African Institute 2014 

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