Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

Herausgeber: Ernst, Waltraud

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780415758321
• ISBN-10: 0415758327
• Artikelnr.: 39701170

Autorenporträt

Waltraud Ernst

Inhaltsangabe

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