Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World
Forthcoming. Duke University Press.
Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of intertwined health and environmental crises. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world.
Table of contents
Introduction. Healing (in) a Toxic World
1. Futures of Lushness
2. Efficacy of Appetites
3. Registers of Knowledge
4. Work of Time
5. Properties of Healing
Conclusion. Therapeutic Sovereignty
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing
2012. Co-edited with Hansjörg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane. Indiana University Press.
This edited collection examines political, social, and economic shifts in African health and healthcare, focusing on medicine, mobility, globalization, and transnational healing.
Reviewed in the Journal of African History, Africa Spectrum, African Studies Review, and Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania
2011. Indiana University Press.
This ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront illnesses including AIDS and malaria, while exploring the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics.
Reviewed in American Ethnologist, African Studies Review, Anthropology and Humanism, Anthropos, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Tanzanian Affairs.
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