1st Edition
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Edited By Waltraud Ernst
Copyright 2002
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case-studies that cover many different parts of the globe, ranging from New Zealand to Africa, China, South Asia, Europe and the USA.
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
Biography
Waltraud Ernst
'In exploring the manner in which traditional medicines have been framed, reformulated and reconstituted in different contexts, the contributors to Plural Medicine seek, firstly to move away from the dichotomising discourse of tradition and modernity (or Western and non-Western) and, secondly, to show that medical systems are inherently 'multi-faceted, forever in flux and never purely delineated.' – Kronos
