Author: Janzen, John M.
Title: The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1978). orig. cloth, dustwrapper. xxii,266 pp, 22x14cm,. Some minor rubbing. VG. In a lightly rumpled dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Foreword by Charles Leslie; The Area of Study: The Human Setting of Healing in Lower Zaire; A History of Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire; Studies in Kongo Illness & Therapy: Disease of God; Disease of Men; Strife in the Family As Cause of Child's IIllness; A History of Madness; The Professional as Kinsman; Marriage & the Father's Blessing; The Clan as Patient; The Logic of Therapeutic Systems: The Jural Status of Therapy in Kongo Society; Interpreting Symptoms; Contemporary Systems of Popular Medicine in Lower Zaire; Toward an Integrated Medicine; Appendix: Episodes of Case Studies Reported in Chapters 3-8; Herbarium of Medicinal Plants.

Keywords: African Ethnology, Ethnomedicine, Lower Zaire Congo, BaKongo Kongo, Central Africa, Ethnography, Folk Medicine, Social Sociology, Anthropology, Medical