The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

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 relig...

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Main Author: Taee, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2017]
Series:WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 4
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (242 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785333958
DOI:10.1515/9781785333958

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