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Medical Pluralism and Homoeopathy in India and Germany (1810–2010)
A Comparison of Practices
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Medical Pluralism and Homoeopathy in India and Germany (1810–2010)
A Comparison of Practices
About this book
Medical Pluralism is by now recognized as a reality in many countries. Studies, however, bringing together anthropologists and historians working on this subject are still rare. A comparative view on Germany and India with their different patterns of institutionalisation of medical pluralism is particularly rewarding. This volume focuses on practices starting with the story of a Transsylvanian lay healer who functioned in Lahore as a cultural broker. Indigenising of homoeopathy in Bengal shows a particular mode of appropriation. Patients and their choices are considered for the late 19th and late 20th century Germany and in present day India. In addition to the practices of lay healers as health care providers in Bengal and in Indian slums, independent General Practitioners and physicians working in the public health care system are analysed too. A case study of an Indian hospital shows a pragmatic way to introduce medical pluralism into a modern "allopathic" institution. The political debate on medical pluralism e.g. in the German Reichstag in the beginning of the 20th century is also one of the topics. The e-book concludes with a theoretical reflection on the concept of medical pluralism.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Martin Dinges - Introduction
- Silvia Waisse - East Meets West: Johann M. Honigberger and Medical Pluralism through the Eyes of a 19th Century Transylvanian Saxon in India
- Shinjini Das - Innovating Indigeneity, Reforming Domesticity: Nationalising Homeopathy in Colonial Bengal
- Avi Sharma - Rethinking Asymmetries in the Marketplace: Medical Pluralism in Germany, 1869–1910
- Ameeta R. Manchanda - A Homeopathic Clinic in a Multispeciality Hospital. Reflections from Practice
- Raj Kumar Manchanda, Surender Kumar Verma, Leena V. Chhatre, Harleen Kaur - Homeopathy in Urban Primary Healthcare Units of the Delhi Government: An Assessment
- Harish Naraindas - Nosopolitics. Epistemic Mangling and the Creolization of Contemporary Ayurveda
- Hugues Dusausoit - The Quest for Another Recognition. Ethnography of an homeopath in Tamil Nadu
- Marion Baschin - The Patients’ Choice – How and Why Sick People Used Homeopathy in 19th Century Münster
- Rahul Tewari, Ramachandran Valavan - Patients’ Trend in Choosing the Homeopathic Medical System in India
- Philipp Eisele - Medical Pluralism and the Patients’ Perspective in Germany – Letters to “Natur und Medizin” (1992–2000)
- Nupur Barua - Medical Pluralism in a Slum in Delhi: Global Medicine in a Local Garb?
- Krishna Soman - Pluralism, Popularity and Propaganda: Narratives of Lay Practices of Homeopathy in India
- William Sax - Looking Behind and Ahead
- Authors