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Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Harish Naraindas (Ed.)
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Description for Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Hardback. 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.. Editor(s): Naraindas, Harish; Quack, Johannes; Sax, William S. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FK; MBP; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Epistemologies of Healing
Condition
New
Weight
576 g
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782383086
SKU
V9781782383086
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99-15
About Harish Naraindas (Ed.)
Harish Naraindas has taught at the Universities of Delhi, Iowa, Freiburg and Heidelberg. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. He has published widely in leading journals on medical tourism and co-edited a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine (April 2011).
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