Ethiopian society in the early twentieth century -- Admission of religious students to the healing arts -- Learning church-based medical education -- Church-based healers during the Italian interlude (1935/6-1941) -- Biomedicine, bureaucratic challenges and the quest for alternative therapy in Ethiopia (1941-1974) -- The state of indigenous healing in the post-Italian period (1941-1974) -- The impact of literacy on indigenous medical knowledge -- The impact of the military regime on indigenous healers (1974 to the early 1980s) -- Recapping the past and the future of church-based medicine.
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