The Patient Multiple An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

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 relig...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Taee, Jonathan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2017]
Zusammenfassung:
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 religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography
Umfang:
1 online resource (242 p.)
Schriftenreihe:
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
ISBN:
9781785333958
DOI:
10.1515/9781785333958?locatt=mode:legacy
Zugangseinschränkungen:
restricted access
Schlagworte:
Medical Anthropology / Bhutan
Medical anthropology / Bhutan
Traditional medicine / Bhutan
Traditional medicine / Technological innovation / Bhutan
Traditional medicine / Bhutan / Technological innovation
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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