Asymmetrical Conversations : : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries / / ed. by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack, William S. Sax.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Basu, Helene,; Bhaskaran Nair, Hari Kumar,; Kirmayer, Laurence J.,; Naraindas, Harish,; Quack, Johannes,; Sax, William S.,; Warrier, Maya,; Zimmermann, Francis,
• HerausgeberIn: Naraindas, Harish,; Quack, Johannes,; Sax, William S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction Entangled Epistemes --; Chapter One Medicines of the Imagination Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism, and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism --; Chapter Two Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-Patient Department (OPD) --; Chapter Three Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person --; Chapter Four My Vaidya and My Gynecologist Agency, Authority, and Risk in Quest of a Child --; Chapter Five Davā and Duā Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness --; Chapter Six A Healing Practice in Kerala --; Chapter Seven Ayurveda in Britain The Twin Imperatives of Professionalization and Spiritual Seeking --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782383093; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782383093
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack, William S. Sax.

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.