Jonathan Taee holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has conducted ethnographic research and worked in Tibet, Peru, Nepal, India, the USA and Bhutan.

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Notes on Language
Dzongkha Reference Guide
Acknowledgements
Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Patient Multiple: Cures, Healths and Bodies
Chapter 2. Modernising Traditional Medicine: A Two-Option Healthcare Service
Chapter 3. An Ethnography of Decision-Making
Chapter 4. Alternative Practices and the Removal of Ja Né
Chapter 5. Patients and Healing Materials: Relations and Dependency

Conclusion: Assembling Patient Multiples and Complementary Logics of Care

Bibliography
Index

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.