Alternative Medicine?: A History
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199218870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly As a child, medical historian Bivins was treated by a healer in Nigeria and an M.D. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Her strident tone may not convince anyone not already on her side, but Bivins' history is a provocative, far-sighted take on a long-debated subject. All rights reserved. . Bivins' research is thorough throughout-including a wide range of scientists, thinkers and spiritualists while shifting from Europe to India to the Far East and back-but so is her disdain for a system that posits "increasingly costly" and ever-narrowing options for both patients and practitioners. Looking at such examples as a West Indian herbal cure for gout th
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). 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
Born in Massachusetts, she spent much of her childhood in Nigeria and has first-hand experience with non-orthodox medical practice in the Third World.. Roberta Bivins is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Cardiff University
"The origins of some alternative therapies" according to Dr. H. A. Jones. Alternative Medicine? A history, by Roberta Bivins, Oxford University Press, 2007, 258 ff.The author of this book, on cultural cross-fertilization of medical knowledge over past centuries, particularly between East and West, is a lecturer in the History of Medicine at Cardiff University. Her primary focus here is on how medical investigative techniques practiced in the East came to be used in western m. Melanie Kuhn said I only bought this because of school but its a. I only bought this because of school but its a really rough read. I would suggest the Sighn and Ernst book over this. Much easier of a read.. Regarding Homeopathy's Science-Ejected Vitalism, 2008: Robert J. Cullen This book is an excellent example of homeopathy's underpinning vitalism / animatism / animism / dualism 'purposeful life spirit' figmentation {like naturopathy, which educationally per AANMC schools and licensure-wise per NPLEX examination, requires 'such' full-blown classical Hahnemannian homeopathy woo [labeled as clinical science!!!]}.I quote:"Hahnemann [] believed that disease sprang not from a sim