The Body in Balance : Humoral Medicines in Practice /
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of "balance" in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2013]
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Colección: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
13 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- A Body of What?
- Chapter 1 Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus How Solid was the Humoral Body?
- Chapter 2 Fluxes and Stagnations A Physician's Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies
- Chapter 3 When Money Became a Humour
- A Practice with What?
- Chapter 4 Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?
- Chapter 5 Complexio and Experimentum Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice
- Chapter 6 Yunani Tibb and Foundationalism in Early Twentieth-Century India Humoral Paradigms between Critique and Concordance
- Chapter 7 Hot/Cold Classifi cations and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico
- A Balance of What?
- Chapter 8 Balancing Diversity and Well-being Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa
- Chapter 9 'Holism' and the Medicalization of Emotion The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine
- Chapter 10 Aiming for Congruence The Golden Rule of Åyurveda
- Chapter 11 Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices
- What Next?
- Chapter 12 What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-moral Nexus of Moderation
- Index