The patient multiple : an ethnography of healthcare and decision-making in Bhutan /
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | Taee, Jonathan, author. |
---|---|
Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2017. ©2017 |
Description: | xx, 220 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | WYSE series in social anthropology ; volume 4 Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 4. |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11006145 |
ISBN: | 9781785333941 1785333941 9781785333958 |
---|---|
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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." |
Other form: | Online version: Taee, Jonathan, author. Patient multiple New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785333958 |
Similar Items
-
Krankheit und Kultur : eine Einführung in die Ethnomedizin /
by: Pfleiderer, Beatrix
Published: (1985) -
Social anthropology and medicine /
Published: (1976) -
Medical history of Bhutan : chronicle of health and disease from Bon times to today /
by: Tandin Dorji
Published: (2012) -
Culture and curing : anthropological perspectives on traditional medical beliefs and practices /
Published: (1978) -
La Antropología médica en España /
Published: (1980)