Naturopathy in South India : clinics between professionalization and empowerment / by Eva Jansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jansen, Eva, author.

Series:

Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 17.

Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturopathy--India, South.

Naturopathy.

Herbs--Therapeutic use--India, South.

Herbs.

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

South India.

India.

Medical Subjects:

Naturopathy.

India.

Physical Description:

xi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

In Naturopathy in South India - Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment, Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of Naturopathy in contemporary South India: On one side, a scientific, professional branch models themselves after allopathic practitioners. On the other side, a group of ideologists uses an approach to patient treatment that is grounded in the principles of simplicity, transparency, a critique of globalization, and a focus on patient empowerment. Jansen discusses the current political and medical clash between Naturopaths in South India from the perspectives of practitioners, employees, the media and patients. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Naturopathy in Theory

Introduction to Part 1 2

1 Ambiguities: From the Evil in Baby Oil to Yogic Randomized Controlled Trials 3

1 Floating Through Time and Across Space: Naturopathic Theories and Practices 6

2 Medical Pluralism and Epistemologies 7

3 Professional Alternatives: Institutionalized Non-Naturopathic Health Care in India 9

4 The Institutionalization and Professionalization of the AYUSH Systems of Medicine 14

5 The Embodiment of Naturopathic Experience: Some Notes on Methodology 15

6 Outline of Chapters 19

2 The Embodiment of Resistance: (Dis)continuities in Indian Naturopathy 22

1 The Biopolitics of Colonialism and Medicine in India 27

2 Disseminating Naturopathic Knowledge in India 31

3 Brothers in Arms: German Pioneers 36

4 Yoga as the Fifth Element? Contemporary Adaptations 41

5 Conclusion 45

Part 2 Naturopathy in Practice

Introduction to Part 2 48

3 Evidence versus Experience: Two Streams of Naturopathy in South India 50

1 Science in the Making 51

2 "Come a Patient, Return a Doctor" 60

3 Sudden Crisis of Naturopathy: Registration Politics 71

4 Conclusion 76

4 Naturopathic Spaces: On Nutrition, Substances and Psychological Integration 77

1 Gandhiji Naturopathy Hospital Thrissur 80

2 Nature Life Hospital, Kozhikode 88

3 Three Methods of Treatment 95

4 Conclusion 100

5 Naturopathic Actors: Between Ideology and Practice 102

1 How to Become a Naturopathic Doctor 103

2 Being Private - Being a Naturopathic Doctor 110

3 People from the Village: Treatment Assistants and Other Associates 112

4 The Social Stratification of Naturopathic Hospitals 117

5 Conclusion 119

6 The Logic of Labeling: Diagnostics and Naturopathy 121

1 Health-Seeking Behavior in South India 122

2 Allopathic Diagnostics and Naturopathic Treatment 124

3 Dodging the Stigma of Mental Illness: A Female Occurrence 131

4 Conclusion 136

7 The Efforts of Freedom: Patients' Role in Achieving Medical Independence 138

1 Medical Biographies in Naturopathic Treatment 139

2 "Better off" Patients 141

3 "No Other Option" Patients 147

4 Going On and Off Treatment 150

5 "My Peace is So Wonderful" 154

6 Conclusion 157

8 Conclusion 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jansen, Eva, author. Naturopathy in South India

ISBN:

9789004324848

9004324844

OCLC:

950430796