Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
Series |
WYSE series in social anthropology ; volume 4
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Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 4.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The patient multiple : cures, healths and bodies -- Modernizing traditional medicine : a two-option healthcare service -- An ethnography of decision-making -- Alternative practices and the removal of Ja Né -- Patients and healing materials : relations and dependency -- Conclusion : assembling patient multiples and complementary logics of care. |
Summary |
"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." |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Bhutan.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Bhutan. |
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Traditional medicine -- Bhutan.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Traditional medicine -- Bhutan -- Technological innovation.
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Euro courses. Technological innovation. |
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Medical care.
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Medical care. |
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Alternative medicine.
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Alternative medicine. |
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Therapeutics, Physiological.
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Decision making.
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Decision making. |
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Bhutan. |
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decision making. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Therapeutics, Physiological. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Medical care. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Taee, Jonathan. Patient multiple. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785333941 (DLC) 2016053205 |
ISBN |
9781785333958 (electronic book) |
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178533395X (electronic book) |
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9781785333941 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1785333941 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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