Asymmetrical Conversations : : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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