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      Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

      John M. Janzen

      Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the…

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      Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa

      John M. Janzen

      A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is investigated here and interpreted in a contemporary context. The study incorporates spirit possession into a broader, institutional…

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      The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

      Emphasizes the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. This title…

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      The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

      John M. Janzen

      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…

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      Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies

      This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community, providing a glimpse into the intellectual…

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      Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies

      This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community, providing a glimpse into the intellectual…

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      Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing

      Discusses Africa and medicine in a globalised world

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      Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing

      Discusses Africa and medicine in a globalised world

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      African Medical Pluralism

      The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice…

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      African Medical Pluralism

      The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice…

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      Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Culture

      William C. Olsen,Carolyn Sargent,Morgan K. Hoke

      Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary?

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      Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Culture

      William C. Olsen,Carolyn Sargent,Morgan K. Hoke

      Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary?

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