Asymmetrical Conversations : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries.: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Naraindas, Harish; Quack, Johannes; Sax, William S
• Contents: Chapter One: Medicines of the Imagination : Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism, and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism -- Chapter Two: Porous Dividuals? : Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-Patient Department (OPD) -- Chapter Three: Medical Individualism : and the Dividual -- Chapter Four: My Vaidya and My Gynecologist : Agency, Authority, and Risk in Quest of a Child -- Chapter Five: Davā and Duā : Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness -- Chapter Six: A Healing Practice in Kerala -- Chapter Seven: Ayurveda in Britain : The Twin Imperatives of Professionalization and Spiritual Seeking.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Subjects: 615.5; Medicine, Ayurvedic; Mind and body; Spiritual healing; Medicine, Ayurvedic; Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; Spiritual Therapies; MEDICAL -- Pharmacology; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Medicine, Ayurvedic; Mind and body; Spiritual healing; Geestelijke gezondheid; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782383093; 1782383093
• Related ISBNs: 9781782383086; 1782383085
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.; Note: Online resource (EBSCO, viewed on September 17, 2014).
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