Medicine Across Cultures

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

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.

• Aboriginal Health Practice
• Cultural Studies
• Medicine in Ancient Mesoamerica
• Oriental Medicine
• Thai Medicine
• Tibetan Medicine
• Western Medicine
• african medicine
• biomedicine
• medical knowledge
• medicine in ancient China
• medicine in ancient Egypt
• non-western cultures
• practice of medicine
• therapy

• Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

  Helaine Selin

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