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List of Figures

Preface
by Thomas Csordas

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction: Body and Self in Medical Pluralism
Helle Johannessen

PART I: BODY, SELF AND SOCIALITY

Chapter 2. Demographic Background and Health Status of Users of Alternative Medicine: A Hungarian Example
László Buda, Kinga Lampek and Tamás Tahin

Chapter 3. Táltos Healers, Neoshamans and Multiple Medical Realities in Postsocialist Hungary
Imre Lázár

Chapter 4. 'The Double Face of Subjectivity': A Case Study in a Psychiatric Hospital (Ghana)
Kristine Krause

Chapter 5. German Medical Doctors' Motives for Practising Homoeopathy, Acupuncture or Ayurveda
Robert Frank and Gunnar Stollberg

Chapter 6. Pluralisms of Provision, Use and Ideology: Homoeopathy in South London
Christine A. Barry

Chapter 7. Re-examining the Medicalisation Process
Efrossyni Delmouzou

PART II: BODY, SELF AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HEALING

Chapter 8. Healing and the Mind-body Complex: Childbirth and Medical Pluralism in South Asia
Geoffrey Samuel

Chapter 9. Self, Soul and Intravenous Infusion: Medical Pluralism and the Concept of samay among the Naporuna in Ecuador
Michael Knipper

Chapter 10. Experiences of Illness and Self: Tamil Refugees in Norway Seeking Medical Advice
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Chapter 11. The War of the Spiders: Constructing Mental Illnesses in the Multicultural Communities of the Highlands of Chiapas
Witold Jacorzynski

Chapter 12. Epilogue: Multiple Medical Realities: Reflections from Medical Anthropology
Imre Lázár and Helle Johannessen

Index

Imre Lazar graduated as a medical doctor from Semmelweis University of Medicine and in 1999 became an expert of occupational medicine. He has a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology from the Brunel University and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since the foundation of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at Semmelweis University, Lazar has been teaching in the Medical Anthropology department and in 2004 he became its head. He is also associate professor at the Institute of Communication and Social Sciences, K.roli G.sp.r University of Reformed Church, Budapest.