Asymmetrical Conversations : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries /

Asymmetrical Conversations : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries /

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Imprint:New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
Language:English
Series:Epistemologies of Healing ; 14
Subject:
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Mental healing.
Mind and body.
Spiritual healing.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13917112
Related Items:Title is part of eBook package: Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Other authors / contributors:Basu, Helene, contributor.
Bhaskaran Nair, Hari Kumar, contributor.
Kirmayer, Laurence J., contributor.
Naraindas, Harish, contributor.
Naraindas, Harish, editor.
Quack, Johannes, contributor.
Quack, Johannes, editor.
Sax, William S., contributor.
Sax, William S., editor.
Warrier, Maya, contributor.
Zimmermann, Francis, contributor.
ISBN:9781782383093
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:In English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Summary: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.
Standard no.:10.1515/9781782383093

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