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"Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary medicine, in which elements of folk traditions are often blended with western scientific approaches. The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine is a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of non-biomedical healing. The book addresses a broad range of practices including: substance, energy and information flows (e.g. helminthic therapy); spirit, consciousness and trance (e.g. shamanism); body, movement and the senses (e.g. reiki and aromatherapy); as well as classical medical traditions as complements or alternatives to Western biomedicine (e.g. Ayurveda). Exploring the cultural underpinnings of contemporary healing methods, while assessing current ideas, topics and resources for further study, this book will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and health related professions such as nursing, physical and occupational therapy, and biomedicine."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Medical anthropology. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Alternative medicine. --- Alternative medicine --- Anthropologie médicale --- Médecines parallèles --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Traditional medicine. --- Anthropology, Medical --- Complementary Therapies

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Psychiatry, Transcultural --- Ethnopsychiatrie --- Psychiatry, Transcultural. --- Geestelijke gezondheid. --- Psychohygiene. --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Psychiatry --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Anthropologie médicale --- Anthropologie. --- Cross-cultural comparison --- Culturele antropologie. --- Ethnopsychologie --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnopsychology. --- Medical anthropology --- Medical anthropology. --- Mental Health --- Mental health --- Mental health. --- Santé mentale --- Congrès. --- Santé mentale --- Anthropologie médicale --- Cross-cultural psychiatry --- Cultural psychiatry --- Psychiatry, Cross-cultural --- Transcultural psychiatry --- Cross-cultural studies

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This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost wordlessly conveys esoteric knowledge and techniques; attended seminars given by a senior Chinese doctor, an acupuncturist and masseur, who plunges his followers into the study of arcane medical classics, and studied with students at the Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the standardised knowledge of official Chinese medicine is inculcated. Dr Hsu compares the theories and practices of these different Chinese medical traditions and shows how the same technical terms may take on different meanings in different contexts. This is a fascinating, insider's account of traditional medical practices, which brings out the way in which the context of instruction shapes knowledge.

Medicine, Chinese --- Medical anthropology --- Médecine chinoise --- Anthropologie médicale --- Study and teaching --- Etude et enseignement --- S21/0300 --- S14/0800 --- S18/0352 --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- China: Education--Teaching methods --- China: Music and sports--Qigong --- #A0503W --- Medical anthropology. --- Medical anthropology - Study and teaching - China. --- Medicine, Chinese. --- Education, Medical --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional --- Medicine, East Asian Traditional --- Education, Professional --- Education --- Medicine, Traditional --- Complementary Therapies --- Culture --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Anthropology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Sciences --- History of Medicine --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Médecine chinoise --- Anthropologie médicale --- Medical care --- Chinese medicine --- TCM (Medicine) --- Traditional Chinese medicine --- Traditional medicine --- Anthropological aspects

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For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

Leprosy --- Healing --- Aghorīs --- Medical anthropology --- Hansen disease --- Hanseniasis --- Hansen's disease --- Mycobacterial diseases --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Aghora (Sect) --- Aghorapanthīs --- Aghorī (Sect) --- Aghorīpanthīs --- Śaivism --- Kāpālikas --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Treatment --- Religious aspects --- Aghorīs. --- Rituals. --- Anthropological aspects --- Anthropologie médicale --- Lèpre --- Traitement --- aghor medicine. --- aghor therapy. --- aghori. --- anthropology. --- ayurveda. --- biomedicines. --- cannibalism. --- charnel grounds. --- conflict. --- coprophagy. --- corpses. --- cremation grounds. --- cremation. --- death. --- hardship. --- healing powers. --- healing. --- health. --- human skulls. --- illness and health. --- india. --- kapalas. --- living naked. --- medical anthropology. --- medical conditions. --- meditation. --- multicultural medicine. --- northern india. --- political organization. --- politics. --- pollution. --- post mortem rites. --- radical. --- ritual bathing. --- ritually polluted substances. --- skull cups. --- stigmatized diseases.

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Anthropology --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychosomatic Medicine --- Anthropology. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychosomatic Medicine. --- Médecine psychosomatique --- Psychanalyse --- Anthropologie médicale --- Medicine, Psychosomatic --- Psychodynamic Analysis --- Analyses, Psychodynamic --- Analysis, Psychodynamic --- Psychodynamic Analyses --- Mind and body therapies --- Mind-Body Therapies. --- Médecine psychosomatique --- Anthropologie médicale --- Psychophysiology --- Mind-Body Medicine --- Mind Body Medicine --- Mind Body Therapies --- Mind-Body Therapy --- Therapies, Mind-Body --- Therapy, Mind-Body --- Spiritual Therapies --- Body-centered psychotherapy --- Body-centered therapies (Psychotherapy) --- Body therapies (Psychotherapy) --- Psychotherapy --- Psychosomatic medicine --- Somatopsychics --- Medicine and psychology --- Mind and body --- Neuroses --- Psychology, Pathological --- Medicine, Psychosomatic. --- Mind and body therapies. --- Psychology --- Medical anthropology --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Thérapies corporelles --- Thérapies corporelles. --- Anthropologie. --- Psychanalyse. --- Médecine psychosomatique. --- anthropology. --- psychoanalysis. --- Human beings --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropological aspects --- Primitive societies --- Medical anthropology. --- Social sciences