The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice (Epistemologies of Healing, Band 13)

ISBN 10: 0857459821 ISBN 13: 9780857459824

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of "balance" in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?

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Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is co-author of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (with Nicholas Purcell, Blackwell, 2000) and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2008). He is also writing a general book on early hospitals for Yale University Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857459821
• ISBN 13: 9780857459824
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
• Herausgeber: Horden Peregrine, Hsu Elisabeth
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland