Author: John M. Janzen
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520032950
Category: Medical
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520032950
Category: Medical
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
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John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?
In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends, asociates, and specialized practitioners.
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This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one
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