Roberta Bivins

Alternative Medicine?

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), Alternative Medicine? maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780199543762
• ISBN-10: 0199543763
• Artikelnr.: 29579552

Autorenporträt

Roberta Bivins is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her work focuses on the transmission of medical expertise between cultures, as exemplified by the transmission of acupuncture to the west, and by the medical experiences of non-western immigrants in multicultural Britain and America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Rival systems of medicine'?
1: 'What is this burning?'
2: Health and 'The New Science'
3: 'The Chinese have a great deal of wit'
4: 'With our Western brethren, the case seems to be quite different'
5: Conclusion: Pragmatism, Pluralism and the (Im)Patient-Consumer
Further Reading
Notes
Index