LEADER 03375nam 2200781 450 001 9910792963503321 005 20170527084255.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785333958 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4873553 035 $a(DE-B1597)636503 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785333958 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386811 100 $a20170713h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe patient multiple $ean ethnography of healthcare and decision-making in Bhutan /$fJonathan Taee 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aWyse Series in Social Anthropology ;$vVolume 4 311 $a1-78533-394-1 311 $a1-78533-395-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe patient multiple : cures, healths and bodies -- Modernizing traditional medicine : a two-option healthcare service -- An ethnography of decision-making -- Alternative practices and the removal of Ja Ne? -- Patients and healing materials : relations and dependency -- Conclusion : assembling patient multiples and complementary logics of care. 330 $a"In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography." 410 0$aWyse series in social anthropology ;$vVolume 4. 606 $aMedical anthropology$zBhutan 606 $aTraditional medicine$zBhutan 606 $aTraditional medicine$xTechnological innovation$zBhutan 610 $aailments. 610 $aalternative practices. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $abhutan. 610 $abiomedical network. 610 $adaily lives. 610 $adecision making process. 610 $agood health. 610 $ahealing practices. 610 $ahealthcare complexity. 610 $ahimalayan kingdom. 610 $amedical patients. 610 $amedical topography. 610 $apatients. 610 $aphysical anthropology. 610 $aprovocative practices. 610 $areligious healing. 610 $aseeking cures. 610 $ashamanism. 610 $asociological study of medicine. 610 $atraditional healthcare units. 610 $aunique mountain cultures. 615 0$aMedical anthropology 615 0$aTraditional medicine 615 0$aTraditional medicine$xTechnological innovation 676 $a306.4/61095498 686 $aLC 56390$2rvk 700 $aTaee$b Jonathan$01572966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792963503321 996 $aThe patient multiple$93848427 997 $aUNINA