Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Name: Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine
SKU: INR-9781845451042
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SKU: INR-9781845451042 Category: All Books Tags: Cultural & Social, Pluralism, Medical Anthropology, Medical Technology, Medical Innovations, Medicine, Human Body, Traditional Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Ethnology, Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Social Aspects, Healing, Health Aspects, Ingram, General, Social Science, Medical, Psychology

Description

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.

Editor: Johannessen, Helle, Editor: Lazar, Imre

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 184545104X
Language: English
Pages: 224