Taee The Patient Multiple

An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-395-8
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 242 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taee, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acronyms

Notes on Language

Dzongkha Reference Guide

Acknowledgements

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies

Chapter 2. Modernising Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service

Chapter 3. An Ethnography of Decision-Making

Chapter 4. Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né

Chapter 5. Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency

Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Taee, Jonathan
Jonathan Taee holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has conducted ethnographic research and worked in Tibet, Peru, Nepal, India, the USA and Bhutan.