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EAN : 9782359250633
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 232
Size : 125 x 190 mm
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Release date : 15/11/2012

Healers and modern medicine are often opposed one to another, but this view, asserts Tobie Nathan and Isabelle Stengers, is both wrong and inconsistent. According to them words such as belief, symbolic, rationality prevent us from thinking these traditional practices as real techniques.
This book has become a work of reference...

Healers and modern medicine are often opposed one to another, but this view, asserts Tobie Nathan and Isabelle Stengers, is both wrong and inconsistent. According to them words such as belief, symbolic, rationality prevent us from thinking these traditional practices as real techniques.
This book has become a work of reference ever since it’s first publication in 1995 and is a real manifesto for ethnopsychiatry. The common goal of psychologist and philosopher alike is to ask us to rethink the relationship between Western culture and the others.

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EAN : 9782359250633
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 232
Size : 125 x 190 mm
La Découverte