Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity

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• Published online: 02 Jan 2014

Author affiliations

• ^a Department of Sociology and Anthropology , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
• ^b Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity , Göttingen , Germany
• ^c Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology , University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom
• ^d Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology , Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen , Tübingen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany

Author notes

• Kristine Krause -

  KRISTINE KRAUSE is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Her research interests include political subjectivity and care, transnationalism and health, and medicine and religion, particularly global Pentecostalism.

• David Parkin -

  DAVID PARKIN is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, England, Honorary Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Senior Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He studies Islam and healing systems among Swahili-speaking Muslims and other Bantu-speaking non-Muslims in coastal eastern Africa, including Zanzibar. He has a general interest in cross-cultural semantics and language use.

• Gabi Alex -

  GABI ALEX is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Senior Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. Her research interests include medical anthropology, ethnicity, healing and identity, and youth and childhood, on which she has conducted research in India and Germany.