عنوان

Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000 /

(Number (ISBN

0203467108

(Number (ISBN

0585456216

(Number (ISBN

9780203467107

(Number (ISBN

9780585456218

Erroneous ISBN

0415231221

Erroneous ISBN

9780415231220

Number

b791719

Title Proper

Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Waltraud Ernst.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).

Series Title

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ;

Volume Designation

13

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.

Title

Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000.

International Standard Book Number

0415231221

Cultural pluralism-- Health aspects.

Medical care-- Comparative method.

Medical care, Cross-cultural studies.

National health services-- Comparative method.

National health services, Cross-cultural studies.

Cultural Diversity.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Medicine, Traditional.

Sociology, Medical-- history.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Health Care Issues.

Medical care-- Comparative method.

Medical care.

MEDICAL-- Diseases.

MEDICAL-- Health Care Delivery.

MEDICAL-- Health Policy.

MEDICAL-- Public Health.

National health services-- Comparative method.

National health services.

HEA-- 028000

HEA-- 039000

MED-- 022000

MED-- 035000

MED-- 036000

MED-- 078000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Book Number

Ernst, Waltraud,1955-

Date of Transaction

20201207050048.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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