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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 4.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785333958
  • 178533395X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Patient multiple.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/61095498 23
LOC classification:
  • GN296.5.B47 T34 2017
NLM classification:
  • 2017 C-620
  • W 84 JB5
Online resources:
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.
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."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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."

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050

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