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

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 manoeuvr...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2005]
Schriftenreihe:EASA Series 4
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789205749
DOI:10.1515/9781789205749

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