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Medicine Across Cultures

History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Helaine Selin

    1. Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

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Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 3)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine

    • John M. Janzen, Edward C. Green
    Pages 1-26

  3. Medicine in Ancient Egypt

    • Ahmed Shafik, Waseem R. Elseesy
    Pages 27-47

  4. Medicine in Ancient China

    • Cai Jingfeng, Zhen Yan
    Pages 49-73

  5. Āyurveda

    • Ananda S. Chopra
    Pages 75-83

  6. Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Tibetan Medicine

    • Robert William, Prasaad Steiner
    Pages 85-113

  7. Traditional Thai Medicine

    • Viggo Brun
    Pages 115-132

  8. Oriental Medicine in Korea

    • Don Baker
    Pages 133-153

  9. Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America

    • Margaret Lock
    Pages 155-173

  10. Traditional Aboriginal Health Practice in Australia

    • Dayalan Devanesen, Patrick Maher
    Pages 175-189

  11. When Helaing Cultures Collide: A Case From the Pacific

    • Cluny Macpherson, La’avasa Macpherson
    Pages 191-207

  12. Native American Medicine: Herbal Pharmacology, Therapies, and Elder Care

    • Lewis Mehl-Madrona
    Pages 209-224

  13. Lords of the Medicine Bag: Medical Science and Traditional Practice in Ancient Peru and South America

    • Ruben G. Mendoza
    Pages 225-257

  14. Medicine In Ancient Mesoamerica

    • Carlos Viesca
    Pages 259-283

  15. Healing Relationships in the African Caribbean

    • Karen McCarthy Brown
    Pages 285-303

  16. Medicine in Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Cultures

    • Samuel Kottek
    Pages 305-324

  17. Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia

    • Guy Attewell
    Pages 325-350

  18. How Different are Western and Chinese Medicine? The Case of Nerves

    • Hugh Shapiro
    Pages 351-372

  19. Religion and Medicine

    • Jim B. Tucker
    Pages 373-384

  20. The Relation Between Medical States and Soul Beliefs Among Tribal Peoples

    • Åke Hultkrantz
    Pages 385-395
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Medicine Across Cultures: The History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures consists of 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of medicine and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

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  • Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

    Helaine Selin

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