Asymmetrical Conversations
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Asymmetrical Conversations

Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Asymmetrical Conversations

Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries

About this book

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 sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781782383093
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. TOC
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Contributors
  11. Index

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