Doctors and Healers
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1509521860
ISBN13:9781509521869
Release Date:September 2018
Publisher:Polity Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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