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Holism and Complementary Medicine
The rise of complementary medicine is one of the most important developments in healthcare over the past three decades. This popular text outlines the history and philosophy behind holistic therapies and examines their role in contemporary health systems. This fully updated new edition of Holism and Complementary Medicine offers a systematic overview of traditional healing practices, the development of the Western biomedical model from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present, and the holistic philosophy which forms the basis of complementary and alternative medicine in the West. It includes a new chapter covering developments over the past two decades, including an increased focus on...
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America as well as Europe and North America, drawing together the latest scholarship and source material in this growing field and allowing for fresh comparisons to be made across time and space. Thematically organised and written by leading academics, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, the perpetual difficulty of creating a classification system for madness and ment...
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People’s Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine. Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke
Dutch Filipiniana
Until recently the Philippines were hardly known in the Netherlands. In academic circles the focus was on Indonesia, and publications on the Philippine part of the Malay archipelago tended to be inspired by matters of economy and state in the former Netherlands East Indies. The 1970s and 1980s showed a substantial broadening of scope and increase in research as well as popular interest in the Philippines, as is evidenced by the large majority of the 349 titles mentioned and annotated in this publication. Many early publications contain interesting information and views as well, however. Pre-war authors who are mainly known for their work on Indonesia, such as Valentijn, Van Hoëvell, Kern, A...
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
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.
Eating Drugs
A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs? Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning from patients as possible. Without a sustained public debate on psychopharmaceuticals in India, patients remain puzzled by the notion that drugs can cure disturbances of the mind. While biomedical psychopharmaceuticals are perceived with g...
Social Lives of Medicines
Medicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healing and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs in the hands of particular actors: mothers in Manila, villagers in Burkina Faso, women in the Netherlands, consumers in London, market traders in Cameroon, pharmacists in Mexico, injectionists in Uganda, doctors in Sri Lanka, industrialists in India, and policymakers in Geneva. Each example is used to explore a different problem in the study of medicines, such as social efficacy, experiences of control, skepticism and cultural politics, commodification of health, the attraction of technology and the marketing of images and values. The book shows how anthropologists deal with the sociality of medicines, through their ethnography, their theorizing, and their uses of knowledge.
Medicine and Life Sciences in India
The Spectrum Of This Volume Encompasses The Substantive Dimensions Of Vedic Medicine; Ayurveda, Unani And Siddha Systems; A Comparative Overview Of Them; Yoga; Folk-Medicine; Indian Medicine In The Colonial Period; An Appraisal Of Indian Pharmaceuticals; Traditional Knowledge Of Plants And Animals, Besides On Introductory Perspective On Traditional Medicine. In Its Twenty-Two Chapters Contributed By Experts In Their Fields, This Volume Endeavours To Present Authentic And Critical Insights Into The Nature And Structure As Well As The Expanse Of Medicine In India. It Has An Extensive Bibliography Of Over Eight Hundred Titles, Both Primary And Secondary, For Further Studies By Those Who Are Interested In Indian Medicine. This Volume Is Perhaps The First Of Its Type In Providing Under One Cover Practically A Complete Picture Of Medicine As Developed In India Right From The Vedic Times.
Broken Limbs, Broken Lives
Shahaduz Zaman carried out anthropological fieldwork in an orthopedic ward in a large government teaching hospital of Bangladesh. The research shows that in contrast to the assumed universalism in biomedicine, biomedical practice is in fact a product of particular social conditions, and the hospital in which it takes place reflects the features of the society in which it is embedded. A shocking and humorous study, this work shows how medical practice takes shape in an under-staffed, under-resourced and under-financed hospital in a low-income country characterized by daily physical and structural violence. Shahaduz Zaman is a medical doctor, medical anthropologist, and literary writer.
Medical Anthropology in Europe
This handbook to existing medical anthropology programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate level in Europe is designed for students who are looking for suitable training and professionals who are looking for expertise in the field.
