Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
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, focus…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Quack, Johannes (Hrsg.) / Sax, William S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78238-308-6
- EAN: 9781782383086
- Produktnummer: 16559133
- Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 556 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 14
- Gewicht: 556
Über den Autor
William S. Sax has taught at Harvard, Christchurch, Paris, and Heidelberg, where he is Chair of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute. His major works include Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Central Himalayan Pilgrimage (1991), The Gods at Play: Lila in South Asia (1995), Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal (2002), God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas (2008), and The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (2010).
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