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.
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.
Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is co-author of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (with Nicholas Purcell, Blackwell, 2000) and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2008). He is also writing a general book on early hospitals for Yale University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Peregrine Horden Part I: A Body of What? Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body? Helen King Chapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician's Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies Barbara Duden Chapter 3. When Money became a Humour Shigehisa Kuriyama Part II: A Practice with What? Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice? Emilie Savage-Smith Chapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice Peter Jones Chapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in India Guy Attewell Chapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico Ellen Messer Part III: A Balance of What? Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa David Parkin Chapter 9. 'Holism' and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine Elisabeth Hsu Chapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of Ayurveda Francis Zimmermann Chapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices Patrizia Bassini Part IV: What Next? Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of Moderation Elisabeth Hsu Index
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Peregrine Horden Part I: A Body of What? Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body? Helen King Chapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician's Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies Barbara Duden Chapter 3. When Money became a Humour Shigehisa Kuriyama Part II: A Practice with What? Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice? Emilie Savage-Smith Chapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice Peter Jones Chapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in India Guy Attewell Chapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico Ellen Messer Part III: A Balance of What? Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa David Parkin Chapter 9. 'Holism' and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine Elisabeth Hsu Chapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of Ayurveda Francis Zimmermann Chapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices Patrizia Bassini Part IV: What Next? Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of Moderation Elisabeth Hsu Index
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