Asymmetrical Conversations : Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries.
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as ""natural"" and unproblematic, we somet...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Series: | Epistemologies of healing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as ""natural"" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studie. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782383093 1782383093 |