The patient multiple : an ethnography of healthcare and decision-making in Bhutan /
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 relig...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2017.
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| Series: | Wyse series in social anthropology ;
v. 4. |
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Table of 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.