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Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003 Edition
Author(s): Hugh Shapiro (Adapter), Helaine Selin
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: December 6, 2010
- Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 441 pages
- ISBN-10: 9048162386
- ISBN-13: 9789048162383
Book Description
Medicine Across Cultures: The History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures consists of 19 essays dealing 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. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of medicine and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
