Multiple Medical Realities

Chapter 1 Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism, Helle Johannessen Part I Body, Self and Sociality Chapter 2 Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: a Hungarian Example Laszlo Buda, Kinga Lampek and Tamas Tahin Chapter 3 Taltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical, Realities in Postsocialist Hungary Imre Lazar Chapter 4 'The Double Face of Subjectivity': a Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana) Kristine Krause Chapter 5 German Medical Doctors' Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda Robert Frank and Gunnar Stollberg Chapter 6 Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London, Christine A. Barry Chapter 7 Re-examining the Medicalisation Process Efrossyni Delmouzou Part II Body, Self and the Experience of Healing Chapter 8 Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia Geoffrey Samuel Chapter 9 Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador, Michael Knipper Chapter 10 Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice Anne Sigfrid Gronseth Chapter 11 The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas Witold Jacorzynski Chapter 12 Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology Imre Lazar and Helle Johannessen