Naturopathy in South India

Clinics Between Professionalization and Empowerment

von Eva Jansen

194 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Naturopathy in South India - Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment, Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of Naturopathy in contemporary South India: On one side, a scientific, professional branch models themselves after allopathic practitioners. On the other side, a group of ideologists uses an approach to patient treatment that is grounded in the principles of simplicity, transparency, a critique of globalization, and a focus on patient empowerment. Jansen discusses the current political and medical clash between Naturopaths in South India from the perspectives of practitioners, employees, the media and patients.

• Themen: Medizin Medizin / Gesundheitswesen, allgemein Geschichte der Medizin
• ISBN: 9789004324848
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2016
• Größe: 236 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill