Medical Identities Healing Well Being and Personhood 1st Edition by Kent Maynard 1845450388 9781845450380
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ISBN 10: 1845450388
ISBN 13: 9781845450380
Author: Kent Maynard
Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived – from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Shaping new identities
Chapter 2. Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia
Chapter 3. The viccissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon
Chapter 4. Sexual orientations and gender identity among Zulu diviners
Chapter 5. Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one
Chapter 6. Necessary in-betweens
Chapter 7. Midwives’ identity in a British hospital
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