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Horden, Peregrine - Hsu, Elisabeth (eds.), The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice, Nova York - Oxford, Berghahn Books (Epistemologies of Healing, 13), 2013, xi + 288 pp.
- Resum
- 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 connote egalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?
Conté:
* Introduction / Peregrine Horden
-- Part I: A body of what?
* 1. Female fluids in the hippocratic corpus: how solid was the humoral body? / Helen King
* 2. Fluxes and stagnations: a physician's perception and treatment of humours in baroque ladies / Barbara Duden
* 3. When money became a humour / Shigehisa Kuriyama
-- Part II: A practice with what?
* 4. Savage-Smith (2013), "Were the four humours fundamental ..."
* 5. Complexio and experimentum: tensions in late medieval medical practice / Peter Jones
* 6. Foundationalism and instrumentality: rethinking humoral paradigms in early twentieth-century Yunani tibb in India / Guy Attewell
* 7. Hot cold classifications and balancing actions in mesoamerican diet and health: theory and ethnography of practice in twentieth-century Mexico / Ellen Messer
-- Part III: A balance of what?
* 8. Balancing diversity and well-being: words, concepts and practice in eastern Africa / David Parkin
* 9. ‘Holism' and the medicalization of emotion: the case of anger in Chinese medicine / Elisabeth Hsu
* 10. Aiming for congruence: the golden rule of Āyurveda / Francis Zimmermann
* 11. Harmony or hierarchy? The mindful body and the sacred landscape in Tibetan healing practices / Patrizia Bassini
-- Part IV: What next?
* 12. What next? Balance in medical practice and the medico-moral nexus of moderation / Elisabeth Hsu
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