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Professions and Social Order Markets, States and Healers in Burkina Faso
This study asks a fundamental theoretical and empirical question--re-posing and re-contextualizing in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa: can markets generate the institutions on which they depend for their effectiveness, or do these require the active intervention of a strong, purposeful and democratic state?
Introduction: The Market for Healing in Ouagadougou
1. Professions and the Social Order
2. Indigenous Healers and the Traditional State
3. The Medical Profession and the Colonial Power
4. Reconstructing the Public Governance Structure of Medical Practice
5. The Revival of the Private Governance Structure of Medical Practice
6. Healing Work and Civic Virtue
Conclusion: Professions, States and Markets
Biography
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University.
Natewindé Sawadogo is a founding member of the Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Science Sociales et Santé (LARISS), in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
