Edward C. Green
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Edward C. Green, PhD, originally trained as an anthropologist, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project. He has worked for over 30 years in international development. Much of his work since the latter 1980s has been in AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, primarily in Africa, but also in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and other parts of the world. He served as a public health advisor to the governments of both Mozambique and the Swaziland. Green has studied indigenous African healing systems and healers and has written three books on these topics. Most recently, Dr. Green has been at the forefront of a global debate about the behavioral antecedents of declines in HIV prevalence in Africa One book missing from Open library: Green, E.C., Khalid Abu-Khalid, and Mohammed Omari, Palestinian Maternal and Child Health: a Qualitative National Study. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestinian Territories. USAID/West Bank & Gaza Strip, & Macro International (Calverton, Maryland), March 9, 2000. Available on-line
Books
Indigenous theories of contagious disease
"Far from being the province of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery, indigenous understanding of contagious disease in the developing world very often parallels western concepts of germ theory." "Labeling this Indigenous Contagion Theory (ICT), applied anthropologist, author, and consultant Edward C. Green synthesizes the voluminous ethnographic work of tropical diseases and remedies in the Third World - including 20 years of his own studies and interventions with traditional healers in southern Africa - to present the compelling case that indigenous peoples generally believe contagious diseases to have naturalistic causes and cures." "For the public health practitioner, Green's work points the way in which western medical practitioners can incorporate ICT to better help native peoples control contagious diseases."--Jacket.
AIDS and STDs in Africa
Since sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) facilitate the transmission of AIDS and since most STD cases are brought to traditional healers, Green argues that biomedical practitioners must work together with healers to help contain the epidemic. Drawing upon research in southern, East, and West Africa, he examines the role of traditional healers in providing health care and collaborative AIDS/STD and family planning programs in AIDS prevention.