Asymmetrical conversations: contestations, circumventions, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries

Medicines of the imagination : cultural phenomenology, medical pluralism, and the persistence of mind-body dualism / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Porous dividuals? complying to a healing temple (Balaji) and a psychiatric out-patient department (OPD) / Johannes Quack -- Medical individualism and the divid...

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Other Authors: Naraindas, Harish (Editor) , Quack, Johannes (Editor) , Sax, William Sturman (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2014
Series:Epistemologies of healing 14
In: Epistemologies of healing (14)

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Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz407363688inh.htm
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Author Notes:edited by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack, and William S. Sax
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Summary:Medicines of the imagination : cultural phenomenology, medical pluralism, and the persistence of mind-body dualism / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Porous dividuals? complying to a healing temple (Balaji) and a psychiatric out-patient department (OPD) / Johannes Quack -- Medical individualism and the dividual person / Francis Zimmermann -- My vaidya and my gynecologist : agency, authority, and risk in quest of a child / Harish Naraindas -- Davaa and duaa : negotiating psychiatry and ritual healing of madness / Helene Basu -- A healing practice in Kerala / William Sax and Hari Bhaskar -- Ayurveda in Britain : the twin imperatives of professionalisation and spiritual seeking / Maya Warrier
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781782383086
1782383085