Knowledge And The Scholarly Medical Traditions
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Author | : Donald George Bates |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1995-11-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521499750 |
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However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relying on ancient texts. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of this, scholarly medical knowledge offers a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge generally. The contributors to this volume are all specialists in the history or anthropology of these traditions, and their essays range from historical investigations to studies of present-day practices.
Author | : Nancy G. Siraisi |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472037463 |
Download History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors’ efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings.
Author | : Alain Touwaide |
Publisher | : de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110600599 |
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Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations over a long period of time in the past, carefully handed down through generations, and subsequently recorded in writing and preserved in books now scattered in libraries across the world. Rarely the object of a specific study, they are approached here as a field in its own right. The present essay explores such key topics as the impact of tradition approach on medical historiography, the relation between written documents and practice, and the transmission of knowledge across time and cultures with its possible modifications and their processes and causes. Though based on a decade-long close scrutiny of the Greek medical tradition, it establishes parallels with other traditions, and invites not only to do comparative study, but also to apply to other traditions the approach proposed here. By laying down the foundations for a fresh analysis of ancient medical knowledge as a discipline, Medical Traditions - Exploring the Field will be a reference for any scholar interested in the medical record of the past, be it for the sake of history or for renewed applications in present day.
Author | : Elaine Yuen Tien Leong |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780754668541 |
Download Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge in early modern Europe. This volume brings together international scholars from a variety of fields to offer insights and new interpretations into the role played by secrets in their area of specialization.
Author | : Helaine Selin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2006-04-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0306480948 |
Download Medicine Across Cultures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.
Author | : Elisabeth Hsu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1999-11-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521645423 |
Download The Transmission of Chinese Medicine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost wordlessly conveys esoteric knowledge and techniques; attended seminars given by a senior Chinese doctor, an acupuncturist and masseur, who plunges his followers into the study of arcane medical classics, and studied with students at the Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the standardised knowledge of official Chinese medicine is inculcated. Dr Hsu compares the theories and practices of these different Chinese medical traditions and shows how the same technical terms may take on different meanings in different contexts. This is a fascinating, insider's account of traditional medical practices, which brings out the way in which the context of instruction shapes knowledge.
Author | : Nancy G. Siraisi |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226761312 |
Download Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
Author | : Lawrence I. Conrad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1995-08-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521475648 |
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This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine.
Author | : Alisha Rankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781032924731 |
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Author | : Miriam Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Evidence-based medicine |
ISBN | : 0198732619 |
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How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years. Consensus conferences, evidence-based medicine, translational medicine, and narrative medicine are among the most prominent new methods. Making Medical Knowledge explores their origins and aims, their epistemic strengths, and their epistemic weaknesses. Miriam Solomon argues that the familiar dichotomy between the art and the science of medicine is not adequate for understanding this plurality of methods. The book begins by tracing the development of medical consensus conferences, from their beginning at the United States' National Institutes of Health in 1977, to their widespread adoption in national and international contexts. It discusses consensus conferences as social epistemic institutions designed to embody democracy and achieve objectivity. Evidence-based medicine, which developed next, ranks expert consensus at the bottom of the evidence hierarchy, thus challenging the authority of consensus conferences. Evidence-based medicine has transformed both medical research and clinical medicine in many positive ways, but it has also been accused of creating an intellectual hegemony that has marginalized crucial stages of scientific research, particularly scientific discovery. Translational medicine is understood as a response to the shortfalls of both consensus conferences and evidence-based medicine. Narrative medicine is the most prominent recent development in the medical humanities. Its central claim is that attention to narrative is essential for patient care. Solomon argues that the differences between narrative medicine and the other methods have been exaggerated, and offers a pluralistic account of how the all the methods interact and sometimes conflict. The result is both practical and theoretical suggestions for how to improve medical knowledge and understand medical controversies.