The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Seiten
2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-394-1 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-394-1 (ISBN)
Investigates the complex web of healing practices engaged by people in Bhutan as they seek cures for their ailments.
Examines all options in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes.
Describes how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
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.
Examines all options in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes.
Describes how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
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.
Jonathan Taee holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has conducted ethnographic research and worked in Tibet, Peru, Nepal, India, the USA and Bhutan.
List of Figures
Acronyms
Notes on Language
Dzongkha Reference Guide
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies
Chapter 2. Modernising Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service
Chapter 3. An Ethnography of Decision-Making
Chapter 4. Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né
Chapter 5. Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency
Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.02.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index; 30 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-394-1 / 1785333941 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-394-1 / 9781785333941 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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