Physicians Of Western Medicine

Author : Robert A. Hahn,Atwood D. Gaines
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400964303

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Physicians of Western Medicine by Robert A. Hahn,Atwood D. Gaines Pdf

After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central to its clinical practice - managing errors and learning to conduct a shared moral dis course about mistakes, handling issues of competence and competition among biomedical practitioners, practicing in value-laden contexts on problems for which social science is a more relevant knowledge base than biological science, integrating folk and scientific models of illness in clinical communication, among a large number of highly pertinent ethnographic insights that illuminate medicine in the chapters that follow.

Author : Xiaoping Fang
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1580464335

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Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China by Xiaoping Fang Pdf

The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0199248133

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Western Medicine by Irvine Loudon Pdf

Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Marc Berg,Annemarie Mol
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0822321742

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Differences in Medicine by Marc Berg,Annemarie Mol Pdf

Western medicine is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. This book debunks this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of "conventional" Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics, and converse with patients.

Author : David Greaves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315344270

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The Healing Tradition by David Greaves Pdf

The Healing Tradition argues that Western medicine is fundamentally flawed because it fails to provide a healing environment for both individuals and society, and indicates potential ways to correct this through an integration model of medical humanities. All health professionals and those with an interest in medical humanities will find this book valuable reading.

Author : Andrew Cunningham,Bridie Andrews
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0719046734

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Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge by Andrew Cunningham,Bridie Andrews Pdf

Examines the range of non-Western responses to Western medicine across the spectrum of Western imperialist influence, from Japan in the East to the Navajo of North America in the West. The text aims to make a contribution to the debate about the relationship between knowledge and.

Author : Allan Chapman
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780745970400

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Physicians, Plagues and Progress by Allan Chapman Pdf

Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies work, and what heals them. Embarking on a four-thousand-year odyssey, science historian Allan Chapman brings to life the origin and development of medicine and surgery. Writing with pace and rigorous accuracy, he investigates how we have battled against injury and disease, and provides a gripping and highly readable account of the various victories and discoveries along the way. Drawing on sources from across Europe and beyond, Chapman discusses the huge contributions to medicine made by the Greeks, the Romans, the early medieval Arabs, and above all by Western Christendom, looking at how experiment, discovery, and improving technology impact upon one another to produce progress. This is a fascinating, insightful read, enlivened with many colourful characters and memorable stories of inspired experimenters, theatrical surgeons, student pranks, body-snatchers, 'mad-doctors', quacks, and charitable benefactors.

Author : Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521475643

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The Western Medical Tradition by Lawrence I. Conrad Pdf

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 : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780774824347

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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by Bridie Andrews Pdf

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

Author : Roy Macleod,Milton J Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000566154

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Disease, Medicine and Empire by Roy Macleod,Milton J Lewis Pdf

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.

Author : Herbert Ho Ping Kong,Michael Posner
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781770905665

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The Art of Medicine by Herbert Ho Ping Kong,Michael Posner Pdf

A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicine. In The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment. While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical technology, he makes the point that as disease and its management grow increasingly complex, physicians must learn to develop an arsenal of more basic skills, actively using the arts of seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy, and advocacy to provide a more humane and holistic form of care. Aimed at medical practitioners, aspiring doctors, or anyone interested in health and medicine, this book also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK’s patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of his professional colleagues on the art of medicine.

Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross,Daniel Moerman,Laurence R. Tancredi
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780897895163

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The Anthropology of Medicine by Lola Romanucci-Ross,Daniel Moerman,Laurence R. Tancredi Pdf

This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in ^IAmerican Anthropologist^R as must reading for all medical anthropologists, physicians, advanced medical anthropology students and advanced medical students, this new edition should prove twice as valuable. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care. New chapters focus on ethnobotany, placebo and pain, shamanism, and psychiatry. The contributors to this volume examine the acculturation process of healer, physician, and patient in diverse cultural settings. They explore the social and cultural context of medical events as well as the process of medical thought and problem solving. Medicine, they illustrate, embraces or is embraced by both the cultural and biological dimensions of mankind. From this perspective they show how human belief, knowledge, and action structure the experience of disease and affect ways in which doctors, healers, and patients experience illness and influence the matrix of decision making. This book is essential for students and professionals in anthropology, medicine, and all social science.

Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Folk medicine
ISBN : 0275908879

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The Anthropology of Medicine by Lola Romanucci-Ross Pdf

Originally cited as "must reading" in American Anthropologist, this new third edition of the classic text contains new and updated materials. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work on Western and non-Western medicine.

Author : John Z. Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112009405413

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When the Twain Meet by John Z. Bowers Pdf

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306480942

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Medicine Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

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.