Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries: 14 (Epistemologies of Healing, 14)

by Johannes Quack (Editor), William S. Sax (Editor), Harish Naraindas (Editor)

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  2014

  $143.28

  Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as natural and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies...