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."
Analysis
ailments
alternative practices
anthropology
bhutan
biomedical network
daily lives
decision making process
good health
healing practices
healthcare complexity
himalayan kingdom
medical patients
medical topography
patients
physical anthropology
provocative practices
religious healing
seeking cures
shamanism
sociological study of medicine
traditional healthcare units
unique mountain cultures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022)
