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Science and Spirit in Postcolonial North Kongo Health and Healing

by John M. Janzen Abstract The Kongo region—the Lower Congo—from the 1960s until the present (2014) has seen the significant decline of mortality and natality rates, the tripling of the population, significant emigration, and the advent of family planning. In medicine, “biomedicine” (the medicine of global medical-school-taught doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and pharmacists, and related medicines […]