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Title:
Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000 / edited by Waltraud Ernst.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
xiii, 253 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Medical care.--Cross-cultural studies.
Medical care--Comparative method.
Pluralism--Health aspects.
Medicine, State--Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine, State--Comparative method.
Sociology, Medical--history.
Cultural Diversity
History of Medicine, 19th Cent.
History of medicine, 20th cent.
Medicine, Traditional.
Other Authors:
Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Plural medicine, tradition and modernity : historical and contemporary perspectives : views from below and from above / Waltraud Ernst -- Medicine on the margins? Hydropathy and orthodoxy in Britain, 1840-60 / James Bradley -- In search of rational remedies : homoeopathy in nineteenth-century Bengal / David Arnold and Sumit Sarkar -- Arguing science : Unani tibb, hakims and biomedicine in India, 1900-50 / Claudia Liebeskind -- Categorising 'African medicine' : the German discourse on East African healing practices, 1885-1918 / Walter Bruchhausen and Volker Roelcke -- Medical pluralism and the bounding of traditional healing in Swaziland / Ria Reis -- Nurses as culture brokers in twentieth-century South Africa / Anne Digby and Helen Sweet -- Kexue and guanxixue : plurality, tradition and modernity in contemporary Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid -- Spirituality, belief and knowledge : reflections on constructions of Maori healing / Patricia Laing -- Local-global spaces of health : British South Asian mothers and medical pluralism / Kate Reed -- Indian indigenous pharmaceuticals : tradition, modernity and nature / Maarten Bode -- Health for sale : quackery, consumerism and the internet / Michael Hardey -- Limiting pluralism : medical scientism, quackery, and the internet / Ned Vankevich.
Series:
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 13
ISBN:
9780415231220 (alk. paper)
0415231221 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)47965625
LCCN:
2001048501
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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