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

Buch 15 von 20: Epistemologies of Healing
 
9781782389071: The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice (Epistemologies of Healing, Band 13)

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Offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions" over the last 2,000 years Re-visits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of these traditions Asks how "balance" is defined, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances

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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.

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