[P]rovides insight into the role of pharmacies in a country that also embraces traditional healers, herbalists, and Muslim healers as part of the health care team.4/3/15
~Pharmacy Times
Patterson . . . has written an insightful history of pharmacy education, practice, and entrepreneurship in Senegal.
~Ufahamu
Cutting across the endless association of Africa with pandemic and global intervention, Donna A. Patterson offers a compelling account of robust, home-grown health professions that shows that the continent is firmly a part of the international medical industrial complex. What is more, women have played a major role in this development. This timely book has a great deal to teach us-not least, about innovative approaches to extending care and securing community health.
~Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
Tells a very important story about African access to pharmaceuticals and the development of professions, businesses, and commerce related to that access—which is not always legal.
~Charles Ambler, University of Texas, El Paso
Pharmacy in Senegal demonstrates the ways in which African state intervention—through education, formal loans, and regulation—helped empower a professional class of women and provided the public with greater access to biomedicine.
~Karen Flint, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Suggests a new interpretation of the role of pharmacists where, far from being minor participants and supporting actors, they instead become key players in health care delivery.
~Kalala Ngalamulume, Bryn Mawr College
