Naturopathy in South India : clinics between professionalization and empowerment / by Eva Jansen.

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Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Part 1; Naturopathy in Theory; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1; Ambiguities: From the Evil in Baby Oil to Yogic Randomized Controlled Trials; 1 Floating Through Time and Across Space: Naturopathic Theories and Practices; 2 Medical Pluralism and Epistemologies; 3 Professional Alternatives: Institutionalized Non-Naturopathic Health Care in India; 4 The Institutionalization and Professionalization of the ayush Systems of Medicine; 5 The Embodiment of Naturopathic Experience: Some Notes on Methodology; 6 Outline of Chapters.

Chapter 2The Embodiment of Resistance: (Dis)continuities in Indian Naturopathy; 1 The Biopolitics of Colonialism and Medicine in India; 2 Disseminating Naturopathic Knowledge in India; 3 Brothers in Arms: German Pioneers; 4 Yoga as the Fifth Element? Contemporary Adaptations; 5 Conclusion; Part 2; Naturopathy in Practice; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 3; Evidence versus Experience: Two Streams of Naturopathy in South India; 1 Science in the Making; 2 "Come a Patient, Return a Doctor"; 3 Sudden Crisis of Naturopathy: Registration Politics; 4 Conclusion; Chapter 4.

Naturopathic Spaces: On Nutrition, Substances and Psychological Integration1 Gandhiji Naturopathy Hospital, Thrissur; 2 Nature Life Hospital, Kozhikode; 3 Three Methods of Treatment; 4 Conclusion; Chapter 5; Naturopathic Actors: Between Ideology and Practice; 1 How to Become a Naturopathic Doctor; 2 Being Private -- Being a Naturopathic Doctor; 3 People from the Village: Treatment Assistants and Other Associates; 4 The Social Stratification of Naturopathic Hospitals; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 6; The Logic of Labeling: Diagnostics and Naturopathy; 1 Health-Seeking Behavior in South India.

2 Allopathic Diagnostics and Naturopathic Treatment3 Dodging the Stigma of Mental Illness: A Female Occurrence; 4 Conclusion; Chapter 7; The Efforts of Freedom: Patients' Role in Achieving Medical Independence; 1 Medical Biographies in Naturopathic Treatment; 2 "Better off" Patients; 3 "No Other Option" Patients; 4 Going On and Off Treatment; 5 "My Peace is So Wonderful"; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 8; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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.

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