Asymmetrical Conversations - Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries (Hardcover)

Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Epistemologies of Healing
Release date:	May 2014
Editors:	Harish Naraindas • Johannes Quack • William S. Sax
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-78238-308-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	1-78238-308-5
Barcode:	9781782383086

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!