Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Peregrine Horden
• Elisabeth Hsu

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• The Body in Balance, 2013, p.1

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This collection of studies offers a path through the world’s major systems of thought about the nature of health and the causes of disease.² They are systems that have flourished across the globe at various times during roughly the last two millennia. We believe that studying them through historical evidence and modern ethnography can promote illuminating comparisons. Such study may also suggest the urgent need to reformulate the categories through which the global story of medicine and healing should be told.³ The systems we shall look at can be characterized in a preliminary way by their explanation of health and