Multiple Medical Realities

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Nowadays 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEASA Series
Antal sidor224
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845450267

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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