The patient multiple : an ethnography of healthcare and decision-making in Bhutan / Jonathan Taee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taee, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 4.

Wyse Series in Social Anthropology ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology--Bhutan.

Medical anthropology.

Traditional medicine--Bhutan.

Traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine--Technological innovation--Bhutan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.

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."

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-539-5

OCLC:

1233046246