Multiple Medical Realities by Helle Johannessen

Multiple Medical Realities by Helle Johannessen

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Zusammenfassung

In modern times, 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.

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Multiple Medical Realities by Helle Johannessen

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.

“…an intriguing collection of articles exploring medical pluralism and bodily experiences from a largely European perspective” • American Anthropologist

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.

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ISBN 13 9781845451042
ISBN 10 184545104X
Titel Multiple Medical Realities
Autor Helle Johannessen
Serie Easa Series
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2005-12-01
Seitenanzahl 224
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