Patients, Doctors and Healers (eBook)

Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

Dorthe Brogård Kristensen (Autor)

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2018
XI, 228 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-97031-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism,  Kristensen argues that medical practices are powerful social symbol indicative of overarching socio-political processes. As certain types of extreme and violent experiences-known as olvidos-lack a framework that allows them to be expressed openly, they therefore surface as symptoms of an illness, often with no apparent organic pathology. In these contexts, indigenous medicine, thanks to its sensitivity to socio-political contexts, provides a space for articulation and management of collective experiences and suffering among patients in Southern Chile.

Dorthe Brogård Kristensen is Associate Professor of Consumption Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her current interests include health, food, consumption, technologies and medical pluralism. 

Inhalt

1. Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process2. The History, Culture and Politics of Chile3. Complex Illnesses and Complementary Cures4. Indigenous Disease Categories, Medical Dialogues and Social Positions5. Being Mapuche in Modern Chile: Illness Experiences, Medical Choices and Social Positions6. Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine7. The Shaman, the Virgin and the Taxation Authorities8. Conclusion: The Control of Medicine, the Control of Bodies

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 228 p. 4 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Area Studies • Augusto Pinochet • Healing • healing rituals • Indigenous • machi • Mapuche-illnesses • Mapuche politics • Mapuche practitioners • Medical Anthropology • Medical pluralism • olvido • organic pathology • shamanic • South America • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 3-319-97031-3 / 3319970313
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-97031-8 / 9783319970318