The body in balance : humoral medicines in practice

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The body in balance : humoral medicines in practice

edited by Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu

（Epistemologies of healing, v. 13）

Berghahn, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 connoteegalitarianism 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?

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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Peregrine Horden Part I: A Body of What? Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body? Helen King Chapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician's Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies Barbara Duden Chapter 3. When Money became a Humour Shigehisa Kuriyama Part II: A Practice with What? Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice? Emilie Savage-Smith Chapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice Peter Jones Chapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in India Guy Attewell Chapter 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? Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa David Parkin Chapter 9. 'Holism' and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine Elisabeth Hsu Chapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of Ayurveda Francis Zimmermann Chapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices Patrizia Bassini Part IV: What Next? Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of Moderation Elisabeth Hsu Index

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