Nathan, Tobie
Doctors and Healers
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509521852
- author:
- Nathan, Tobie
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 220
- Dimensions:
- 141 mm X 214 mm
- Genre:
- 21.4 x 14.1 x 2.3 centimetres (0, Science, Medicine, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Doctors and Healers by Tobie Nathan and Isabelle Stengers challenges our understanding of traditional and modern medicine. The authors argue that healers use techniques of 'divination' rather than 'diagnosis', identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. In contrast, modern medicine is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. This ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom. By exploring perspectives from across the globe, Nathan and Stengers blur the distinctions between traditional and modern practices, offering a fresh perspective on the complex relationships between health, healing, and society.
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