Plural Medicine Tradition and Modernity 1800 2000 1st Edition by Waltraud Ernst 0585456216 9780585456218

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ISBN 10: 0585456216 

ISBN 13: 9780585456218

Author: Waltraud Ernst

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.

Table of contents:

1 Plural medicine, tradition and modernity

Historical and contemporary perspectives: views from below and from above

2 Medicine on the margins?

Hydropathy and orthodoxy in Britain, 1840–60

3 In search of rational remedies

Homoeopathy in nineteenth–century Bengal

4 Arguing science

Unani tibb, hakims and biomedicine in India, 1900–50

5 Categorising ‘African medicine’

The German discourse on East African healing practices, 1885–1918

6 Medical pluralism and the bounding of traditional healing in Swaziland

7 Nurses as culture brokers in twentieth–century South Africa

8 Kexue and guanxixue

Plurality, tradition and modernity in contemporary Chinese medicine

9 Spirituality, belief and knowledge

Reflections on constructions of Maori healing

10 Local–global spaces of health

British South Asian mothers and medical pluralism

11 Indian indigenous pharmaceuticals

Tradition, modernity and nature

12 Health for sale

Quackery, consumerism and the internet

13 Limiting pluralism

Medical scientism, quackery, and the internet

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