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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 collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

Table of Contents
  • 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

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        Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
        Publication Date: 30/05/2021
        ISBN13: 9780299325046, 978-0299325046
        ISBN10: 0299325040
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        African history Public health and preventive medicine

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        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 collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

        Table of Contents
        • 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

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