Format:
1 online resource (231 pages)
ISBN:
9783319970318
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process -- Who Cured Wanglen? -- Complex Illnesses, Complementary Cures -- Mapuche Illness as a Social, Cultural and Political Arena -- Field Setting and Fieldwork -- In the Field -- Medical Worlds -- Themes of Cultural Repression: The Olvidos of Chile -- Embodiment and Medical Pluralism -- Mind and Society -- From the Intrapsychic to the Psychosocial Model -- Culture-Bound Syndromes Revisited: The "Sociosomatic" Model -- The Body and Embodiment -- The Organization of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The History, Culture and Politics of Chile -- Spanish Colonizers, Missionaries and the Indigenous Population -- The National Integration of the Indigenous Population -- Creating a New Chile, Creating Inequality: The Neo-Liberal Model -- Modern Chile: Entering Democracy -- The Mapuche in Post-Dictatorship Chile -- The Mapuche Movement and the Alternative to Modernity -- Conclusion: Tensions and Forgetting in the New Chile -- References -- Chapter 3: Complex Illnesses and Complementary Cures -- Public Health in Chile: An Introduction -- Medical Practices and Mental Health in Chile -- Mapuche Medicine: A Valid Alternative? -- Mapuche Illnesses and Medical Practice -- Scenes from Medical Practices: Ways of Seeing, Knowing and Acting -- Imagined Maladies: "Diseases of the Head" -- Scenes from a Psychiatrist's Waiting Room in a Public Health Setting -- Scenes from a Psychiatric Consultation -- The Medical Practice of the Psychiatrist: The Bio-Psycho-Social Gaze -- Scenes from a Shaman's Waiting Room -- Scene from a Shaman's Consultation: Sonia -- Diagnostic and Social Processes -- Mapuche Medicine and the Social Body -- Medical Choices as Social Resources: The "Known About" Take Matters into Their Own Hands -- References.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319970301
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård Patients, doctors and healers Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 3319970305
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319970301
Language:
English
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