Modernizing medicine in Zimbabwe : HIV/AIDS and traditional healers / David S. Simmons.

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012], ©2012.

xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.

Misfortunes without end: an introduction to AIDS in Zimbabwe -- Pt. I. The state of health and the health of the state: a social demography of AIDS in Zimbabwe. Maladies of modernity: economic structural adjustment, HIV/AIDS, and the state of health -- Conspiracy theories: the so-called AIDS virus -- Pt. II. History and modernity: the historical constitution of n'anga as dangerous subjects. Godly medicine, pagan superstition, and the colonial state -- N'anga and the workings of vernacular modernity -- Pt. III. Managing modernity: n'anga responses to HIV/AIDS. Translating policy into action: ZINATHA and HIV/AIDS education -- N'anga theories of infectious diseases -- Of markets and medicine: the changing significance of Zimbabwean muti in the age of intensified globalization -- Conclusion: vernacular modernity, explanatory models, and HIV/AIDS.