The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in PracticeHardcover, 1 August 2013

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice
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Part of Series
Epistemologies of Healing
Part of Series
Epistemologies of Healing, 13
Print Length
300 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date Published
1 Aug 2013
ISBN-10
0857459821
ISBN-13
9780857459824

Description

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?

Product Details

Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 August 2013
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm
Genre:
Medical/Medicine Aspects
ISBN-10:
0857459821
ISBN-13:
9780857459824
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
300
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Weight:
571.53 gm

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