Health, Healing and Illness in African History

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Introduction -- Historical Dynamics -- Early African Healing Systems, Therapeutic Gateways and Disease Exchanges -- Colonial Control, Tropical Medicine, and African Health -- Changing Landscapes of Health and Illness in Contemporary Africa -- Case Studies over Time and Space -- HIV/AIDs in Historical Perspective(s) -- Mental Illness and the 'African Mind' -- Tropical Disease Redux: Malaria and Sleeping Sickness -- Occupational Lung Disease and Economic Exploitation in South Africa.