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

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...