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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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