The body in balance : humoral medicines in practice /

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"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, A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horden, Peregrine (Editor ), Hsu, Elisabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 13.
Temas:
Traditional medicine > History.
Holistic medicine > History.
Body fluids > History.
Manners and customs.
Humoralism
Medicine, Traditional
Holistic Health
Cultural Characteristics
Médecine holistique > Histoire.
Liquides organiques > Histoire.
Mœurs et coutumes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Body fluids.
Holistic medicine.
Traditional medicine.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Female fluids in the hippocratic corpus: how solid was the humoral body?
  • Fluxes and stagnations: a physician's perception and treatment of humours in baroque ladies
  • When money became a humour
  • Were the four humours fundamental to medieval Islamic medical practice?
  • Complexio and experimentum: tensions in late medieval medical practice
  • Yunani Tibb and foundationalism in early twentieth-century India: humoral paradigms between critique and concordance
  • Hot/cold classifications and balancing actions in Mesoamerican diet and health: theory and ethnography of practice in twentieth-century Mexico
  • Balancing diversity and well-being: words, concepts and practice in Eastern Africa
  • 'Holism' and the medicalization of emotion: the case of anger in Chinese medicine
  • Aiming for congruence: the golden rule of Āyurveda
  • Harmony or hierarchy? The mindful body and the sacred landscape in Tibetan healing practices
  • What next? Balance in medical practice and the medico-moral nexus of moderation.

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