Health in a Fragile State : Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- PART I: A history of population and disease in the Lower Congo
- Population decline and rise
- Postcolonial population and disease trends
- Part II: The social reproduction of health
- Health in household, family, and clan
- Public health and health care institutions, reconfigured
- Rejoicing in our bodies: popular meanings of health
- Part II: The legitimation of power and knowledge
- Dumuna: creating authority from below
- Science, sorcery, and spirit
- Legitimation and disease control
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.


