The Patient Multiple : : An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan / / Jonathan Taee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Taee, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps, Illustrations and Figures --; Acronyms --; Notes on Language, Transliteration, Transcription and Translation --; Dzongkha Reference Guide --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies --; 2 Modernizing Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service --; 3 An Ethnography of Decision-Making --; 4 Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né --; 5 Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency --; Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785333958; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785333958?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Taee.

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.