Multiple medical realities : patients and healers in biomedical, alternative and traditional medicine /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2006. |
|---|---|
| Description: | xiii, 202 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | EASA series ; v. 4 |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6119941 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface Thomas Csordas
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism
- Part I. Body, Self and Sociality
- Chapter 2. Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian Example
- Chapter 3. Taltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist Hungary
- Chapter 4. 'The Double Face of Subjectivity': A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana)
- Chapter 5. German Medical Doctors' Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda
- Chapter 6. Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London
- Chapter 7. Re-examining the Medicalisation Process
- Part II. Body, Self and the Experience of Healing
- Chapter 8. Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia
- Chapter 9. Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador
- Chapter 10. Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice
- Chapter 11. The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas
- Chapter 12. Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology
- Index
