Rich Man's Medicine, Poor Man's Medicine

Year Published: 1979

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by Gordian Troeller and Marie Claude Deffarge Filmed on location in Gabon, Senegal, and Kenya, this documentary compares traditional native-based curing methods with highly technological medicine imported to Africa from the United States and Europe. Juxtaposes the methods of several traditional healers with government-sanctioned, higher-priced Western practices, and asks if cosmopolitan medicine is a panacea for Third World ills

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