Multiple Medical Realities

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-026-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johannessen, Helle

Lazar, Imre

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

by Thomas Csordas

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism

Helle Johannessen

PART I: BODY, SELF AND SOCIALITY

Chapter 2. Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian Example

László Buda, Kinga Lampek and Tamás Tahin

Chapter 3. Táltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist Hungary

Imre Lázár

Chapter 4. ‘The Double Face of Subjectivity’: A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana)

Kristine Krause

Chapter 5. German Medical Doctors’ Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda

Robert Frank and Gunnar Stollberg

Chapter 6. Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London

Christine A. Barry

Chapter 7. Re-examining the Medicalisation Process

Efrossyni Delmouzou

PART II: BODY, SELF AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALING

Chapter 8. Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia

Geoffrey Samuel

Chapter 9. Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador

Michael Knipper

Chapter 10. Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice

Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Chapter 11. The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas

Witold Jacorzynski

Chapter 12. Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology

Imre Lázár and Helle Johannessen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johannessen, Helle
Helle Johannessen had a PhD in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and conducted research and teaching in medical anthropology from the mid-1980s. She was associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, where she was head of a research unit and a PhD program for social studies in medicine. In her research she studied medical pluralism in Denmark and Europe. She was involved with a comparative study of the use of complementary medicine among cancer patients in Denmark, Italy and India. She died in 2018.

Lazar, Imre
Imre Lazar graduated as a medical doctor from Semmelweis University of Medicine and in 1999 became an expert of occupational medicine. He has a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology from the Brunel University and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since the foundation of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at Semmelweis University, Lazar has been teaching in the Medical Anthropology department and in 2004 he became its head. He is also associate professor at the Institute of Communication and Social Sciences, K.roli G.sp.r University of Reformed Church, Budapest.

Helle Johannessen had a PhD in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and conducted research and teaching in medical anthropology from the mid-1980s. She was associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, where she was head of a research unit and a PhD program for social studies in medicine. In her research she studied medical pluralism in Denmark and Europe. She was involved with a comparative study of the use of complementary medicine among cancer patients in Denmark, Italy and India. She died in 2018.