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Title: HEALTH AND MEDICAL PRACTICE IN IRAN
TRADITIONAL CULTURE AND MODERN MEDICINE
By: Agnes Loeffler
Format: Paperback

List price: £31.99


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ISBN 10: 1780760442
ISBN 13: 9781780760445
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD.
Pub. date: 30 March, 2017
Series: International Library of Iranian Studies v. 6
Pages: 224
Description: Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. This title offers an investigation of how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by native practitioners in a non-western context.
Synopsis: Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs. Agnes Loeffler's insightful and original book investigates how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by practitioners in a non-western context. Based on research amongst doctors in Iran, Loeffler describes how the system of allopathic medicine has adapted to local explanations of health and disease and to the economic, social and religio-political realities framing contemporary Iranian life and culture. This approach simultaneously problematizes the view of allopathic medicine as a 'western' entity exerting a hegemonic influence over non-western cultures, and provides a rare glimpse of the complexities of modern Iran society - exploring the interfaces between culture, health and the experience of illness.
Publication: UK
Imprint: I.B.Tauris
Returns: Returnable
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