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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Published in:Epistemologies of healing
Contributors: Naraindas, Harish (Editor) ; Quack, Johannes (Editor) ; Sax, William S. 1957- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Berghahn Books 2014
In: Epistemologies of healing (14)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Epistemologies of healing 14
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Asia / Healing / Health / Disease
Further subjects:B Medicine, Ayurvedic
B Collection of essays
B Spiritual Therapies
B Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1782383085