Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

ISBN-13: 9780415231220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str.

Waltraud Ernst

Opis

The essays in this collection originate from the research symposium organized by the Society for the Social History of Medicine at the University of Southampton in 1998. They are concerned with the interaction between different medical approaches during the last two centuries. A variety of methodological approaches are used to challenge narrowly conceived boundaries between disciplines and methodologies.

Recenzje

'In exploring the manner in which traditional medicines have been framed, reformulated and reconstituted in different contexts, the contributors to Plural Medicine seek, firstly to move away from the dichotomising discourse of tradition and modernity (or Western and non-Western) and, secondly, to show that medical systems are inherently 'multi-faceted, forever in flux and never purely delineated.' – Kronos

Spis treści

1. Waltraud Ernst Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Views from Below and from Above 2. James Bradley Medicine on the Margins? Hydropathy and Orthodoxy in Britain, 1840-60 3. David Arnold and Sumit Sarkar In Search of Rational Remedies: Homoeopathy in Nineteenth-Century Bengal 4. Claudia Liebeskind Arguing Science: Unani Tibb , Hakims and Biomedicine in India, 1900-1950 5. Walter Bruchhausen and Volker Roelcke Categorizing 'African Medicine': the German Discourse on East African Healing Practices, 1885-1918 6. Ria Reis Medical Pluralism and the Bounding of Traditional Healing in Swaziland 7. Anne Digby and Helen Sweet Nurses as Culture Brokers in Twentieth-Century South Africa 8. Volker Scheid Kexue and Guanxixue Plurality, Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Medicine 9. Patricia Laing Spirituality, Belief and Knowledge: Reflections on Constructions of Maori Healing 10. Kate Reed Local-Global Spaces of Health: British South Asian Mothers and Medical Pluralism 11. Maarten Bode Indian Indigenous Pharmaceuticals: Tradition, Modernity and Nature 12. Michael Hardey Health for Sale: Quackery, Consumerism and the Internet 13. Ned Vankevich Limiting Pluralism: Medical Scientism, Quackery and the Internet

O autorze

Waltraud Ernst