Book ID: CBB772513552

The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan (2017)

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Taee, Jonathan (Author)


Berghahn Books


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 242 pp.
Language: English

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

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Review Sienna R Craig (2018) Review of "The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan". Social History of Medicine (pp. 417-419). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Chen, Lincoln
Ryan, Jennifer
Draper, Melvyn Lloyd
Coderey, Céline
Olayiwola Akerele
Abdoulaye Kane
Concepts
Health care
Alternative medicine
Medicine, traditional
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Public health
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
Asia
Bhutan
São Paulo (Brazil)
Mexico
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nepal
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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