The Patient Multiple : : An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan / / 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 relig...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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