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The Quest for Therapy: Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire
by Janzen, John M
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0520046331
- ISBN 13
- 9780520046337
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About This Item
Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr, 1978. Book. Good+. Soft cover. Very slight cover wear. Underlining and notes pretty much throughout text. Spine is tight. In this book, Dr. 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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019736
- Title
- The Quest for Therapy: Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire
- Author
- Janzen, John M
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0520046331
- ISBN 13
- 9780520046337
- Publisher
- Univ of California Pr
- Place of Publication
- Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- MEDICINE AFRICA CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, Anthropology, Medicine
- Bookseller catalogs
- One World-Many Cultures;
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