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 ...
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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. From the Preface: This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness, select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process we call "therapy management." The book is intended to clarify a phenomenon of which central African clients have long been cognizant, namely, that medical systems are used in combination. Our study is aimed primarily at readers interested in the practical issues of medical decision-making in an African country, the cultural content of symptoms, and the dynamics of medical pluralism, that is, the existence in a single society of differently designed and conceived medical systems.
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Add this copy of The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire to cart. $12.00, like new condition, Sold by Lee Madden Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by University of California Press.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. 1st printing. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; light dust spotting on text block top edge; book store price sticker on front past down; light, clean interior. DJ is clean and complete; lightly scuffed. 8vo, 266 pp; index, biblio; illustrated.
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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 0520032950.
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Some minor rubbing. VG. In a lightly rumpled dustwrapper., dustwrapper. xxii, 266 pp, 22x14cm, Contents: Foreword by Charles Leslie; The Area of Study: The Human Setting of Healing in Lower Zaire; A History of Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire; Studies in Kongo Illness & Therapy: Disease of God; Disease of Men; Strife in the Family As Cause of Child's IIllness; A History of Madness; The Professional as Kinsman; Marriage & the Father's Blessing; The Clan as Patient; The Logic of Therapeutic Systems: The Jural Status of Therapy in Kongo Society; Interpreting Symptoms; Contemporary Systems of Popular Medicine in Lower Zaire; Toward an Integrated Medicine; Appendix: Episodes of Case Studies Reported in Chapters 3-8; Herbarium of Medicinal Plants.
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