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Peregrine (Hrsg.) Horden

The Body in Balance

Humoral Medicines in Practice

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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 exer… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hsu, Elisabeth (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-85745-983-1
  • EAN: 9780857459831
  • Produktnummer: 20453923
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 300 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'027 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Reihenbandnummer: 13

Über den Autor


Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is co-author of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (with Nicholas Purcell, Blackwell, 2000) and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2008). He is also writing a general book on early hospitals for Yale University Press.

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