Patients, Doctors and Healers | Buch

Cover: 9783319970301 | Patients, Doctors and Healers | Dorthe Brogård Kristensen | Buch | xi

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Beschreibung

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the context of medical pluralism, Kristensen argues that medical practices are powerful social symbol indicative of overarching socio-political processes. As certain types of extreme and violent experiences¿known as olvidos¿lack a framework that allows them to be expressed openly, they therefore surface as symptoms of an illness, often with no apparent organic pathology. In these contexts, indigenous medicine, thanks to its sensitivity to socio-political contexts, provides a space for articulation and management of collective experiences and suffering among patients in Southern Chile.

Über den Autor

Dorthe Brogård Kristensen is Associate Professor of Consumption Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her current interests include health, food, consumption, technologies and medical pluralism.

Zusammenfassung

Employs a methodological orientation that can be very enlightening not only for the case it explores in Southern Chile, but also for broader contexts of medical pluralism

Performs a thorough exploration of how socioeconomics and ethnic identification pre-exist and emerge from, social practices

Takes a unique approach by putting patients as the main focus and relegating medical practitioners to a secondary role

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process.- 2. The History, Culture and Politics of Chile.- 3. Complex Illnesses and Complementary Cures.- 4. Indigenous Disease Categories, Medical Dialogues and Social Positions.- 5. Being Mapuche in Modern Chile: Illness Experiences, Medical Choices and Social Positions.- 6. Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine.- 7. The Shaman, the Virgin and the Taxation Authorities.- 8. Conclusion: The Control of Medicine, the Control of Bodies.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Soziologie , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xi 228 S. 4 farbige Illustr. 228 p. 4 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319970301
ISBN-10:	3319970305
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-97030-1
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Dorthe Brogård Kristensen
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.01.2019
Gewicht:	0,428 kg