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- 9780199218875
- Publication Year
- 2008
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- English
- Publication Name
- Alternative Medicine? : a History
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- Item Length
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Walk into your local health food shop or pick up the local paper, and youll see ads for meditation, acupuncture, herbal supplements, Tai Chi classes, homeopaths, faith healers, and Chinese herbalists. But what exactly is alternative medicine? Is the astonishing popularity of alternative and multicultural medicine really such a recent development? Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), this volume ranges across four centuries and many continents, mapping the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and laying bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine. Historian Roberta Bivens uses a wealth of illuminating and entertaining historical examples--from horse-racing English earls to desperate missionaries in 17th-century Indonesia, and from hypnotism in the British Raj to homeopathy in the American Wild West--to underscore the vital point that the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge and expertise, even alternative medical knowledge and expertise, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon, but has a long and fascinating pedigree. Through comparisons of different medical innovations and importations across different cultures, the book illuminates the twin processes of medical and historical change as seen through the eyes of the medical professionals and consumers of the day. It traces for example the responses in nineteenth-century India to two western alternative medicines (homeopathy and mesmerism) and one staple of mainstream western medicine (germ theory). Given the success of modern biomedical science, why are alternative and traditional treatments now so fashionable? This fascinating volume sheds light on this trend as it offers a sweeping comparative account of alternative medicine over four hundred years.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199218870
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9780199218875
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Alternative Medicine? : a History
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Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
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'I recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in 'alternative' medicine.'Edzard Ernst, author of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 'Ground breaking... Roberta Bivins demonstrates the complex routes that medical knowledge and practice travelled, east to west, north to south, and back again... and disrupts our contemporary notions of "alternative" medicine.'Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, 'A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicine, this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing.'Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London'Extremely engaging... an imaginative, elegantly written and well constructed account, combining accessibility with good scholarship in the best possible way'Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester'Ground breaking... Roberta Bivins demonstrates the complex routes that medical knowledge and practice travelled, east to west, north to south, and back again... and disrupts our contemporary notions of "alternative" medicine.'Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America'I recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in 'alternative' medicine.'Edzard Ernst, author of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine'Roberta Bivins does a much-needed service to history and medicine by demonstrating that 'alternative medicine' is nothing new, but is as old as the first globalizing exchanges between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Medicine has seldom been so powerfully presented in its diverse cultural and changing historical contexts. A fascinating and richly illuminating book.'David Arnold, University of Warwick, "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's"Recommended."--Choice"Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch when a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems...It will be of great value to both conventional and alternative health practitioners alike in helping to explain the differences, as well as the similarities, between diverse healing modalities practiced around the world today."--HerbalGram"In the same erudite style reminiscent of her late mentor, the great medical historian Roy Upton, Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems which are now becoming common in the so-called 'modern world....' For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the 'workings' [of] various healing systems, including Homeopathy, Ayurveda from India, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal therapies.... Alternative Medicine?: A History is an extraordinary achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch in which a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems."--Armando Gonzalez-Stuart, PhD, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas at Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program"...Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems that are now becoming common in the modern world.... For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the workings of various healing systems... Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement..."--HerbalGram, 'Roberta Bivins does a much-needed service to history and medicine by demonstrating that 'alternative medicine' is nothing new, but is as old as the first globalizing exchanges between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Medicine has seldom been so powerfully presentedin its diverse cultural and changing historical contexts. A fascinating and richly illuminating book.'David Arnold, University of Warwick, 'Extremely engaging... an imaginative, elegantly written and well constructed account, combining accessibility with good scholarship in the best possible way'Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester, 'A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicineEL this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing.'Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's "Recommended."--Choice "Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch when a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems...It will be of great value to both conventional and alternative health practitioners alike in helping to explain the differences, as well as the similarities, between diverse healing modalities practiced around the world today."--HerbalGram UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicineEL this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing."--Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Extremely engaging... an imaginative, elegantly written and well constructed account, combining accessibility with good scholarship in the best possible way"--Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Ground breaking... Roberta Bivins demonstrates the complex routes that medical knowledge and practice travelled, east to west, north to south, and back again... and disrupts our contemporary notions of "alternative" medicine."--Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "I recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in 'alternative' medicine."--Edzard Ernst, author of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Roberta Bivins does a much-needed service to history and medicine by demonstrating that 'alternative medicine' is nothing new, but is as old as the first globalizing exchanges between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Medicine has seldom been so powerfully presented in its diverse cultural and changing historical contexts. A fascinating and richly illuminating book."--David Arnold, University of Warwick "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's "In the same erudite style reminiscent of her late mentor, the great medical historian Roy Upton, Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems which are now becoming common in the so-called 'modern world....' For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the 'workings' [of] various healing systems, including Homeopathy, Ayurveda from India, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal therapies.... Alternative Medicine?: A History is an extraordinary achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch in which a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems."--Armando Gonzalez-Stuart, PhD, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas at Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program "Recommended."--Choice "...Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems that are now becoming common in the modern world.... For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the workings of various healing systems... Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement..."--HerbalGram, 'A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicine, this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing.'Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's, "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."-- Doody's "Recommended."-- Choice " Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch when a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems...It will be of great value to both conventional and alternative health practitioners alike in helping to explain the differences, as well as the similarities, between diverse healing modalities practiced around the world today."-- HerbalGram UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicineEL this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing."-- Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Extremely engaging... an imaginative, elegantly written and well constructed account, combining accessibility with good scholarship in the best possible way"-- Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Ground breaking... Roberta Bivins demonstrates the complex routes that medical knowledge and practice travelled, east to west, north to south, and back again... and disrupts our contemporary notions of "alternative" medicine."-- Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "I recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in 'alternative' medicine."-- Edzard Ernst, author of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Roberta Bivins does a much-needed service to history and medicine by demonstrating that 'alternative medicine' is nothing new, but is as old as the first globalizing exchanges between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Medicine has seldom been so powerfully presented in its diverse cultural and changing historical contexts. A fascinating and richly illuminating book."-- David Arnold, University of Warwick "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."-- Doody's "In the same erudite style reminiscent of her late mentor, the great medical historian Roy Upton, Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems which are now becoming common in the so-called 'modern world....' For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the 'workings' [of] various healing systems, including Homeopathy, Ayurveda from India, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal therapies.... Alternative Medicine?: A History is an extraordinary achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch in which a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems."--Armando Gonzalez-Stuart, PhD, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas at Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program "Recommended."-- Choice "...Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems that are now becoming common in the modern world.... For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the workings of various healing systems... Alternative Medicine? A History is an excellent achievement..."-- HerbalGram, "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's "Recommended."--Choice "Alternative Medicine? A Historyis an excellent achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch when a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems...It will be of great value to both conventional and alternative health practitioners alike in helping to explain the differences, as well as the similarities, between diverse healing modalities practiced around the world today."--HerbalGram UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "A brilliant foil to the privileging of Western medicineEL this is cross-cultural history at its best - lively, acute, richly informative, and wonderfully revealing."--Roger Cooter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Extremely engaging... an imaginative, elegantly written and well constructed account, combining accessibility with good scholarship in the best possible way"--Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Ground breaking... Roberta Bivins demonstrates the complex routes that medical knowledge and practice travelled, east to west, north to south, and back again... and disrupts our contemporary notions of "alternative" medicine."--Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette Century:The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "I recommend this book to anyone with more than a passing interest in 'alternative' medicine."--Edzard Ernst, author of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Roberta Bivins does a much-needed service to history and medicine by demonstrating that 'alternative medicine' is nothing new, but is as old as the first globalizing exchanges between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Medicine has seldom been so powerfully presented in its diverse cultural and changing historical contexts. A fascinating and richly illuminating book."--David Arnold, University of Warwick "This well written and painstakingly researched book would enhance any history of medicine collection."--Doody's "In the same erudite style reminiscent of her late mentor, the great medical historian Roy Upton, Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems which are now becoming common in the so-called 'modern world....' For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the 'workings' [of] various healing systems, including Homeopathy, Ayurveda from India, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal therapies.... Alternative Medicine?: A Historyis an extraordinary achievement and appears on the scene precisely in an epoch in which a plethora of misinformation exists regarding the origin and application of a diverse array of alternative and complementary medical healing systems."--Armando Gonzalez-Stuart, PhD, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas at Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program "Recommended."--Choice "...Roberta Bivins both lucidly and entertainingly introduces the reader to the complexities of the principal traditional medical systems that are now becoming common in the modern world.... For such a concise book, it contains a wealth of information regarding the workings of various healing systems...Alternative Medicine? A Historyis an excellent achievement..."--HerbalGram
Table of Content
Introduction: 'Rival systems of medicine'?1. 'What is this burning?'2. Health and 'The New Science'3. 'The Chinese have a great deal of wit'4. 'With our Western brethren, the case seems to be quite different'5. Conclusion: Pragmatism, Pluralism and the (Im)Patient-ConsumerFurther Reading
Copyright Date
2007
Topic
Alternative Therapies, Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Lccn
2007-299752
Dewey Decimal
615.509
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical
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