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1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations |
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Epistemologies of healing ; volume 13 |
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Epistemologies of healing ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connote egalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Traditional medicine -- History
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Holistic medicine -- History
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Body fluids -- History
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Manners and customs.
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Humoralism
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Medicine, Traditional
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Holistic Health
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Cultural Characteristics
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customs (social concepts)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Manners and customs
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Body fluids
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Holistic medicine
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Traditional medicine
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horden, Peregrine, editor.
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Hsu, Elisabeth, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780857459831 |
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085745983X |
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9781299863057 |
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1299863051 |
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