Naturopathy in South India : : clinics between professionalization and empowerment / / by Eva Jansen.
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 Natur...
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| Superior document: | Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume 17 |
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| 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 |
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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.