Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia

“Refusing the great divide between traditional medicine and biomedicine, Pino Schirippa takes us into the fascinating world of medicines, both herbal and synthetic, in Ethiopia. Through this incursion into a plural medical universe, where various therapeutic traditions compete, he skillfully initiates a stimulating reflection on the issue of inequalities in access to care.” -- Sylvie Fainzang, National Institute of Health and Medical Research - France
“Pino Schirripa presents the reader with an amazingly comprehensive ethnography of the ways in which both traditional and synthetic medicines are produced, distributed, prescribed, and used in Ethiopia, unraveling the historical processes, knowledge systems, and power relations that shape these practices. Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia builds on decades of engagement with these issues in Ethiopia — offering the reader the best of what long-term fieldwork has to offer.” -- Anita Hardon, University of Amsterdam