Harish Naraindas Asymmetrical Conversations (Hardback) Epistemologies of Healing
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Further Details Title: Asymmetrical Conversations Condition: New Subtitle: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries ISBN-10: 1782383085 EAN: 9781782383086 ISBN: 9781782383086 Publisher: Berghahn Books Format: Hardback Release Date: 05/01/2014 Description: 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 bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 540g Contributor: Harish Naraindas (Edited by), Johannes Quack (Edited by), William S. Sax (Edited by) Genre: Medicine Book Series: Epistemologies of Healing Author: Harish Naraindas Release Year: 2014 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
