Doctors and Healers
We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all.In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don't listen to patients, u…
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Weitere Autoren: Stengers, Isabelle
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-2189-0
- EAN: 9781509521890
- Produktnummer: 28261338
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 920 KB
Über den Autor
Tobie Nathan is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris-VIII.Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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