Multiple Medical Realities

Helle Johannessen had a PhD in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and conducted research and teaching in medical anthropology from the mid-1980s. She was associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, where she was head of a research unit and a PhD program for social studies in medicine. In her research she studied medical pluralism in Denmark and Europe. She was involved with a comparative study of the use of complementary medicine among cancer patients in Denmark, Italy and India. She died in 2018.

• List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceby Thomas CsordasList of ContributorsChapter 1. Introduction: Body and Self in Medical PluralismHelle JohannessenPART I: BODY, SELF AND SOCIALITYChapter 2. Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian ExampleLászló Buda, Kinga Lampek and Tamás TahinChapter 3. Táltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist HungaryImre LázárChapter 4. ‘The Double Face of Subjectivity’: A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana)Kristine KrauseChapter 5. German Medical Doctors’ Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or AyurvedaRobert Frank and Gunnar StollbergChapter 6. Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South LondonChristine A. BarryChapter 7. Re-examining the Medicalisation ProcessEfrossyni DelmouzouPART II: BODY, SELF AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALINGChapter 8. Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South AsiaGeoffrey SamuelChapter 9. Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in EcuadorMichael KnipperChapter 10. Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical AdviceAnne Sigfrid GrønsethChapter 11. The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of ChiapasWitold JacorzynskiChapter 12. Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical AnthropologyImre Lázár and Helle JohannessenIndex

“…an intriguing collection of articles exploring medical pluralism and bodily experiences from a largely European perspective.” • American Anthropologist