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 relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the 'live and let live’ medical pluralism that is described in the literature.
Spis treści
Introduction: Entangled Epistemes
Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack & William Sax
Chapter 1. Medicines of the Imagination: Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Chapter 2. Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-patient Department (OPD)
Johannes Quack
Chapter 3. Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person
Francis Zimmermann
Chapter 4. My Vaidya and my Gynecologist: Agency, Authority and Risk in Quest of a Child
Harish Naraindas
Chapter 5. Davaa and Duaa: Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness
Helene Basu
Chapter 6. A Healing Practice in Kerala
William Sax and Hari Bhaskar
Chapter 7. Ayurveda in Britain: The Twin Imperatives of Professionalisation and Spiritual Seeking
Maya Warrier
Notes on Contributors
O autorze
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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