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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
New York
Berghahn Books
2014
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| In: |
Epistemologies of healing (14)
Year: 2014 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Epistemologies of healing
14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Healing
/ Health
/ Disease
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| Further subjects: | B
Medicine, Ayurvedic
B Collection of essays B Spiritual Therapies B Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 276 S., cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78238-308-6 1-78238-308-5 |
