Multiple medical realities : patients and healers in biomedical, alternative, and traditional medicine /

Multiple medical realities : patients and healers in biomedical, alternative, and traditional medicine /

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Other Authors: Johannessen, Helle (Editor), Lázár, Imre, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Series:EASA series ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Alternative medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Healing > Cross-cultural studies.
Medical innovations > Social aspects.
Medical technology > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Pluralism > Health aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnology.
Medical care.
Cultural pluralism.
Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Thomas Csordas
  • Ch. 1. Introduction : body and self in medical pluralism / Helle Johannessen
  • Ch. 2. Demographic background and health status of users of alternative medicine : a Hungarian example / Laszlo Buda, Kinga Lampek and Tamas Tahin
  • Ch. 3. Taltos healers, Neoshamans and multiple medical realities in postsocialist Hungary / Imre Lazar
  • Ch. 4. 'The double face of subjectivity' : a case study in a psychiatric hospital (Ghana) / Kristine Krause
  • Ch. 5. German medical doctors' motives for practising homoeopathy, acupuncture or ayurveda / Robert Frank and Gunnar Stollberg
  • Ch. 6. Pluralisms of provision, use and ideology : homoeopathy in South London / Christine A. Barry.

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