TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taee,Jonathan
TI  - The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan 
T2  - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
SN  - 9781785333941
U1  - 306.461095498 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Bhutan
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Therapeutics, Physiological
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Technological innovation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ailments
KW  - alternative practices
KW  - anthropology
KW  - bhutan
KW  - biomedical network
KW  - daily lives
KW  - decision making process
KW  - good health
KW  - healing practices
KW  - healthcare complexity
KW  - himalayan kingdom
KW  - medical patients
KW  - medical topography
KW  - patients
KW  - physical anthropology
KW  - provocative practices
KW  - religious healing
KW  - seeking cures
KW  - shamanism
KW  - sociological study of medicine
KW  - traditional healthcare units
KW  - unique mountain cultures
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333958?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333958
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785333958/original
ER  -