Quest for Therapy: Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire: 1 (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)

by Janzen/Leslie (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $32.74

  Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?