Multiple Medical Realities

Multiple Medical Realities
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 184545104X
ISBN-13 : 9781845451042
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Book Synopsis Multiple Medical Realities by : Helle Johannessen

Download or read book Multiple Medical Realities written by Helle Johannessen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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