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The Patient Multiple : An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan / Jonathan Taee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785333941
  • 9781785333958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461095498
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations and Figures -- Acronyms -- Notes on Language, Transliteration, Transcription and Translation -- Dzongkha Reference Guide -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies -- 2 Modernizing Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service -- 3 An Ethnography of Decision-Making -- 4 Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né -- 5 Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency -- Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781785333958

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations and Figures -- Acronyms -- Notes on Language, Transliteration, Transcription and Translation -- Dzongkha Reference Guide -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies -- 2 Modernizing Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service -- 3 An Ethnography of Decision-Making -- 4 Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né -- 5 Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency -- Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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