Alternative Medicine?
A History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), Alternative Medicine? maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine.
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Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), Alternative Medicine? maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Alternative Medicine? “
Introduction: 'Rival systems of medicine'?; 1: 'What is this burning?'; 2: Health and 'The New Science'; 3: 'The Chinese have a great deal of wit'; 4: 'With our Western brethren, the case seems to be quite different'; 5: Conclusion: Pragmatism, Pluralism and the (Im)Patient-Consumer; Further Reading; Notes; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Roberta Bivins
Roberta Bivins is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her work focuses on the transmission of medical expertise between cultures, as exemplified by the transmission of acupuncture to the west, and by the medical experiences of non-western immigrants in multicultural Britain and America.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roberta Bivins
- 258 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- ISBN-10: 0199543763
- ISBN-13: 9780199543762
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.2010
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Englisch
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Review from previous edition A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicine, this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing. s Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
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