Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

by John M. Janzen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520032950
• ISBN13: 9780520032958
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.