Naturopathy in South India : : clinics between professionalization and empowerment / / by Eva Jansen.

• Superior document: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume 17
• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Eva,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 pages) :; illustrations, tables, map.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In Naturopathy in South India – Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment , Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of Naturopathy in contemporary South India: On one side, a scientific, professional branch models themselves after allopathic practitioners. On the other side, a group of ideologists uses an approach to patient treatment that is grounded in the principles of simplicity, transparency, a critique of globalization, and a focus on patient empowerment. Jansen discusses the current political and medical clash between Naturopaths in South India from the perspectives of practitioners, employees, the media and patients.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 Ambiguities: From the Evil in Baby Oil to Yogic Randomized Controlled Trials -- 2 The Embodiment of Resistance: (Dis)continuities in Indian Naturopathy -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 3 Evidence versus Experience: Two Streams of Naturopathy in South India -- 4 Naturopathic Spaces: On Nutrition, Substances and Psychological Integration -- 5 Naturopathic Actors: Between Ideology and Practice -- 6 The Logic of Labeling: Diagnostics and Naturopathy -- 7 The Efforts of Freedom: Patients’ Role in Achieving Medical Independence -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.