TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barry,Christine A.
AU  - Buda,László
AU  - Csordas,Thomas
AU  - Delmouzou,Efrossyni
AU  - Frank,Robert
AU  - Grønseth,Anne Sigfrid
AU  - Jacorzynski,Witold
AU  - Johannessen,Helle
AU  - Knipper,Michael
AU  - Krause,Kristine
AU  - Lampek,Kinga
AU  - Lazar,Imre
AU  - Lázár,Imre
AU  - Samuel,Geoffrey
AU  - Stollberg,Gunnar
AU  - Tahin,Tamás
TI  - Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine 
T2  - EASA Series
SN  - 9781789205749
AV  - R733 .M855 2006
U1  - 615.8/8 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Healing
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Medical innovations
KW  - Medical technology
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Pluralism
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Figures --; Preface --; List of Contributors --; Chapter 1 Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism --; Part I Body, Self and Sociality --; Chapter 2 Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian Example --; Chapter 3 Táltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist Hungary --; Chapter 4 ‘The Double Face of Subjectivity’: A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana) --; Chapter 5 German Medical Doctors’ Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda --; Chapter 6 Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London --; Chapter 7 Re-examining the Medicalisation Process --; Part II Body, Self and the Experience of Healing --; Chapter 8 Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia --; Chapter 9 Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador --; Chapter 10 Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice --; Chapter 11 The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas --; Chapter 12 Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205749?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789205749
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789205749/original
ER  -