Naturopathy in South India: Clinics Between Professionalization and Empowerment

By Eva Jansen

In Naturopathy in South India - Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment, Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of Naturopathy in contemporary South India: On one side, a scientific, professional branch models themselves after allopathic practitioners. On the other side, a group of ideologists uses an approach to patient treatment that is grounded in the principles of simplicity, transparency, a critique of globalization, and a focus on patient empowerment. Jansen discusses the current political and medical clash between Naturopaths in South India from the perspectives of practitioners, employees, the media and patients.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004324844
• ISBN13: 9789004324848
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"