The patient multiple : an ethnography of healthcare and decision-making in Bhutan /

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"In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taee, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Colección:Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 4.
Temas:
Medical anthropology > Bhutan.
Traditional medicine > Bhutan.
Traditional medicine > Bhutan > Technological innovation.
Medical care.
Alternative medicine.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Decision making.
Delivery of Health Care
Complementary Therapies
Decision Making
Patient Care
Prestation de soins.
Médecines parallèles.
Prise de décision.
Soins médicaux.
decision making.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Therapeutics, Physiological
Medical care
Decision making
Alternative medicine
Medical anthropology
Traditional medicine
Sozialanthropologie
Ethnomedizin
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitswesen
Biomedizin
Volksmedizin
Therapiefreiheit
Bhutan
ailments.
alternative practices.
anthropology.
bhutan.
biomedical network.
daily lives.
decision making process.
good health.
healing practices.
healthcare complexity.
himalayan kingdom.
medical patients.
medical topography.
patients.
physical anthropology.
provocative practices.
religious healing.
seeking cures.
shamanism.
sociological study of medicine.
traditional healthcare units.
unique mountain cultures.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The patient multiple : cures, healths and bodies
  • Modernizing traditional medicine : a two-option healthcare service
  • An ethnography of decision-making
  • Alternative practices and the removal of Ja Né
  • Patients and healing materials : relations and dependency
  • Conclusion : assembling patient multiples and complementary logics of care.

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