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.-
Being-Here
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Ethnographies of Deservingness
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Policy Worlds
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Ethnographies of Power
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Culture Wars
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Ethnographic Practice in the Present
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Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology
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Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices
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Landscapes Beyond Land
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Grammars of Identity / Alterity
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Family Upheaval
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Being Human, Being Migrant
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World Heritage on the Ground
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Messy Europe
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Moving Places
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Shaping Taxpayers
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Back to the Postindustrial Future
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Economy, Crime, and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
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Knowing How to Know
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Postsocialist Europe
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Power and Magic in Italy
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Going First Class?
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Flexible Capitalism
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Peripheral Vision
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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
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Embodying Borders
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Experimental Collaborations
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The Good Holiday
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Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class
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Queer and Trans Life
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Fracturing Resemblances
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Managing Ambiguity
“…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 | 9781845450267 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845450264 |
| Title | Multiple Medical Realities |
| Author | Helle Johannessen |
| Series | Easa Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2005-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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