Medicine Across Cultures

Helaine Selin, Hugh Shapiro9781402011665, 1402011660

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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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Introduction to the Series……Page 6
Contents……Page 8
Acknowledgments……Page 10
About the Contributors……Page 12
Introduction……Page 20
Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine……Page 26
Medicine in Ancient Egypt……Page 52
Medicine in Ancient China……Page 74
Ayurveda……Page 100
Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Tibetan Medicine……Page 110
Traditional Thai Medicine……Page 140
Oriental Medicine in Korea……Page 158
Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America……Page 180
Traditional Aboriginal Health Practice in Australia……Page 200
When Healing Cultures Collide: A Case from the Pacific……Page 216
Native American Medicine: Herbal Pharmacology, Therapies, and Elder Care……Page 234
Lords of the Medicine Bag……Page 250
Medicine in Ancient Mesoamerica……Page 284
Healing Relationships in the African Caribbean……Page 310
Medicine in Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Cultures……Page 330
Islamic Medicines……Page 350
Chinese and Western Medicine……Page 376
Religion and Medicine……Page 398
The Relation Between Medical States and Soul Beliefs among Tribal Peoples……Page 410
Index……Page 422