Chapter 6 Yunani Tibb and Foundationalism in Early Twentieth-Century India Humoral Paradigms between Critique and Concordance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Introduction 1
7. A Body of What?
8. Chapter 1 Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus How Solid was the Humoral Body? 23
9. Chapter 2 Fluxes and Stagnations A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies 53
10. Chapter 3 When Money Became a Humour 69
11. A Practice with What?
12. Chapter 4 Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice? 87
13. Chapter 5 Complexio and Experimentum Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice 107
14. Chapter 6 Yunani Tibb and Foundationalism in Early Twentieth-Century India Humoral Paradigms between Critique and Concordance 129
15. Chapter 7 Hot/Cold Classifi cations and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico 149
16. A Balance of What?
17. Chapter 8 Balancing Diversity and Well-being Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa 169
18. Chapter 9 ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine 197
19. Chapter 10 Aiming for Congruence The Golden Rule of Åyurveda 218
20. Chapter 11 Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices 235
21. What Next?
22. Chapter 12 What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-moral Nexus of Moderation 257
23. Index 281