TY - BOOK ID - 136292023 TI - Asymmetrical conversations : contestations, circumventions, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries AU - Naraindas, Harish AU - Quack, Johannes AU - Sax, William S. PY - 2014 SN - 1782383093 PB - New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Mental healing. KW - Medicine, Ayurvedic. KW - Spiritual healing. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136292023 AB - 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 of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies ER -