Nathan, Tobie
Doctors and Healers
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509521869
- author:
- Nathan, Tobie
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 220
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14.5 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Science, Medicine, General
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Doctors and Healers by Tobie Nathan and Isabelle Stengers is an ethnopsychiatric manifesto that challenges our understanding of illness and treatment. The authors argue that healers, who use techniques such as divination to identify the origins of symptoms, are often misunderstood as simply building on patients' irrational beliefs. In contrast, modern medicine is characterised by empiricism rather than rationality, with a focus on dismissing and excluding other forms of treatment. By blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices, Nathan and Stengers invite us to think in radically new ways about illness, encouraging us to reconsider our relationship between sufferer and symptom.
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