Asymmetrical Conversations : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries.

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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 somet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naraindas, Harish
Otros Autores: Quack, Johannes, Sax, William S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing.
Temas:
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Mind and body.
Spiritual healing.
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Faith Healing
Medicine, Ayurvedic
Spiritual Therapies
Āyurveda.
Guérison par la foi.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Mind and body
Spiritual healing
Geestelijke gezondheid.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One: Medicines of the Imagination : Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism, and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
  • Chapter Two: Porous Dividuals? : Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-Patient Department (OPD)
  • Chapter Three: Medical Individualism : and the Dividual
  • Chapter Four: My Vaidya and My Gynecologist : Agency, Authority, and Risk in Quest of a Child
  • Chapter Five: Davā and Duā : Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness
  • Chapter Six: A Healing Practice in Kerala
  • Chapter Seven: Ayurveda in Britain : The Twin Imperatives of Professionalization and Spiritual Seeking.

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