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