Multiple Medical Realities: Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine (EASA Series, 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845450264 ISBN 13: 9781845450267

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2005

Synopsis

Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self.

About this title

About the Author:

Helle Johannessen has a PhD in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and has done research and teaching in medical anthropology since the mid-1980s. She is currently associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, where she is head of a research unit and a PhD program for social studies in medicine. In her research she has studied medical pluralism in Denmark and Europe. She is currently involved with a comparative study of the use of complementary medicine among cancer patients in Denmark, Italy and India.

Review:

“...an intriguing collection of articles exploring medical pluralism and bodily experiences from a largely European perspective.”   ·  American Anthropologist

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845450264
• ISBN 13: 9781845450267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Johannessen Helle, Lazar Imre