{"product_id":"multiple-medical-realities-patients-and-healers-in-biomedical-alternative-and-traditional-medicine-9781845450267","title":"Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tNowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…an intriguing collection of articles exploring medical pluralism and bodily experiences from a largely European perspective.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• American Anthropologist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tby \u003ci\u003eThomas Csordas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHelle Johannessen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: BODY, SELF AND SOCIALITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian Example\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLászló Buda\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKinga Lampek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTamás Tahin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Táltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist Hungary\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eImre Lázár\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘The Double Face of Subjectivity’: A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKristine Krause\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e German Medical Doctors’ Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRobert Frank\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGunnar Stollberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChristine A. Barry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Re-examining the Medicalisation Process\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEfrossyni Delmouzou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: BODY, SELF AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Samuel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Knipper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnne Sigfrid Grønseth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWitold Jacorzynski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eImre Lázár\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHelle Johannessen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042961490263,"sku":"9781845450267","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450267.jpg?v=1750956416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/multiple-medical-realities-patients-and-healers-in-biomedical-alternative-and-traditional-medicine-9781845450267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}