Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
by
Don Bates
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
052148071X
ISBN-13
9780521480710
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 2nd, 1995
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
730 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.20 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropologyHistory of medicine
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This collection of essays, contributed by specialists in the history and anthropology of the three great medical traditions, examines the nature of medical scholarship in different periods and cultures and the ways in which practitioners used it to legitimate their claims to special knowledge.
However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relying on ancient texts. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of this, scholarly medical knowledge offers a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge generally. The contributors to this volume are all specialists in the history or anthropology of these traditions, and their essays range from historical investigations to studies of present-day practices.
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