The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in

Description: 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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EAN: 9781789207965

UPC: 9781789207965

ISBN: 9781789207965

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Item Height: 1.3 cm

Item Length: 22.9 cm

Item Weight: 0.33 kg

Item Width: 15.2 cm

Publication Name: The Patient Multiple: an Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Subject: Medicine, Anthropology, Healthcare System

Publication Year: 2020

Type: Textbook

Author: Jonathan Taee

Number of Pages: 242 Pages