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

ISBN-13: 9780299325046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

John M. Janzen

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations ix
• Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
• List of Abbreviations xvii
• Introduction 3
• Part I: A History of Population and Disease in the Lower Congo
• 1 Population Decline and Rise 41
• 2 Postcolonial Population and Disease Trends 65
• Part II: The Social Reproduction of Health
• 3 Health in Household, Family, and Clan 89
• 4 Public Health and Health Care Institutions, Reconfigured 109
• 5 Rejoicing in Our Bodies: Popular Meanings of Health 145
• Part III: The Legitimation of Power and Knowledge
• 6 Dumuna: Creating Authority from Below 159
• 7 Science, Sorcery, and Spirit 190
• 8 Legitimation and Disease Control 214
• Conclusion 229
• Notes 235
• Bibliography 243
• Index 251