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Multiple Medical Realities : Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine / ed. by Imre Lazar, Helle Johannessen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789205749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.8/8 22
LOC classification:
  • R733 .M855 2006
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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