The Body in Balance

Humoral Medicines in Practice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-907-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horden, Peregrine

Hsu, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

Peregrine Horden

Part I: A Body of What?

Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body?

Helen King

Chapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies

Barbara Duden

Chapter 3. When Money became a Humour

Shigehisa Kuriyama

Part II: A Practice with What?

Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?

Emilie Savage-Smith

Chapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice

Peter Jones

Chapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in India

Guy Attewell

Chapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Ellen Messer

Part III: A Balance of What?

Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa

David Parkin

Chapter 9. ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine

Elisabeth Hsu

Chapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of Ayurveda

Francis Zimmermann

Chapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices

Patrizia Bassini

Part IV: What Next?

Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of Moderation

Elisabeth Hsu

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hsu, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Oxford, and Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College. Recent co-edited volumes include Wind, Life, Health (with Chris Low, Blackwell, 2008) and Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology (with Stephen Harris, Berghahn Books, 2010). Her most recent authored book is Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Horden, Peregrine
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.

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.