...This chapter argues that as the health care system increasingly confronts problems such as alcohol abuse and automobile accidents, the socialization function of medicine assumes greater importance and the medical role increasingly becomes one of defining a variety of social conditions as health...

..., its inhabitants had had more than a thousand years of exposure to similar traditional Hindu Ayurvedic theories, tempered by contact with Chinese medicine. Over the following centuries, Islamic humoral theory has been shaped by and integrated into Malay thought. Elaborated humoral ideas of contemporary...

... Patrilineal ideology Ming Ch'ing Footbinding Hsu Chi Su Shih Su Tung p'o Ch'e Jo shui Levy Howard Analects for Girls Hsien pi culture women in Widow chastity Classic of Filial Piety for Girls Lou Yueh Literatus ideal Sung Holmgren Jennifer Levirate in Mongol society Chinese sciences medicine...

.... Belief also figures prominently in the practice of modern medicine, powerfully influencing how people respond to treatment. Various terms are used to refer to the role of belief in healing today. The most familiar ones are placebo and the placebo effect; others include expectancy effects, the meaning...

... Komodo dragon Leiolopisma Phelsuma day gecko Podarcis Sphaerodactylus Uma fringed toed lizard Xenosaurus Leiocephalus curly tailed lizard fire ant growth Oedura Solenopsis invicta Uromastyx snakes culture medicine art folklore iguanas Mayan rituals Native American cultures endangered...

...This chapter focuses on early-twentieth-century Protestant arguments for merging Christianity and medicine. It highlights the prescription of both prayer and Bible reading to patients on grounds that reading could be a transformative act capable of freeing a person from addictions and tyrannies...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the work of liberal Protestants concerning medicine and healing. It contends that liberal Protestants championed a metaphor hard to counter by invoking healing as the way to achieve their goals both political and spiritual...

... when dealing with patients of color; American medicine's ambivalence toward the hundreds of studies documenting racial disparities in health care; liberal analysis of physician behavior; and the creation of a racially differentiated human biology that has influenced medical thinking in significant ways...

...This chapter discusses the links between qi and masculinity both through physiological explanations in traditional Chinese medicine and through the social context of qigong (a practice of breath work and healing through cultivating one's qi), where...

... the moralities of the marginalized and oppressed through a philosophy of anti-humanism. Specifically, it discusses the practical possibility of a radical anti-humanist medicine as a way of healing our sick societies. When freed from the dualist, tortured, and overdetermined form of relationship designated...

...This chapter is focused on the interesting field medicine techniques used during the expedition. It begins with a description of the first medicine school in the colonies, which was established in 1765. After discussing some medical techniques, such as therapeutic bleeding, it then looks...

...Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean emerged against the backdrop of a historically older healing. Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean needed as a precondition science, an idea that there are inherent laws independent of place, time, and person. The development of such a science in ancient...

... behavior is practiced. This new medicine looked at dietary strategies for prevention and therapy. The focus was on two procedures. One of these was bloodletting and another was the pinprick. Bloodletting was an ancient therapeutic technique for removing quite a few of the invaders splashing about...

...This chapter focuses on the nonexistence of demons and the microorganisms in new medicine and examines the pathogens in new medicine. Cold, dampness, wind, heat, dryness, immoderation or excesses in eating and drinking were the new “enemies.” Demons and microorganisms had found their way...

...The era of Hellenism was the first shift in early Western history. The center of power moved and the power structure changed. European medicine had emerged and persisted. The incessant changes of place and structural framework made it very difficult to find an indisputable model image for a new...

...The medicine that had developed from the pre-Socratic philosophers of nature and which had gone through a significant development between reality and plausibility now lost its importance. The knowledge of reality was hardly of any use and a new theoretical edifice was not in view. The dissolution...

...China and Europe both looked back to antiquity, but with totally different preconditions. The rulers in China separated pharmacy from medicine. The physicians in China were employees, dependents of the pharmacist. The nature of the new healing that originated in the High and Late Middle Ages...

... for medicine. Numerous professors and students looked into countless corpses. They carefully cut out heart, lungs, kidneys, tendons, muscles, and whatever else they found. They held it all up and looked at it from all sides and they found that the body itself possesses no power of expression. Middle Ages Pico...

..., which was reprinted at least fifty-three times before 1911. Most Westerners today consider acupuncture to be a core aspect of Chinese medicine. Acupuncture was, in antiquity and for a thousand years up to the twelfth or thirteenth century, the only therapeutic procedure in Chinese medicine...

...This chapter sheds light on the scientific revolution in medicine in the centuries following the decline of the Song dynasty to the end of the empire in 1912. There were a couple of initiatives, but no one was able to provide a blueprint to give medicine new momentum. There had been a new momentum...