Nan-Ching

Paul U Unschuld

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited bec... Lees meer

Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change

Leith Mullings

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Pain as Human Experience

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 31
• Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experi... Lees meer

Maternity, Medicine, and Power

Carolyn Fishel Sargent

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Lives at Risk

Laverne Kuhnke

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth ce... Lees meer

Disease Change and the Role of Medicine

Stephen J Kunitz

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 6
• Stephen Kunitz's work raises crucial issues for public policy in the medical field, and will be valuable for social scientists, physicians, and health... Lees meer

Ngoma

John M Janzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 34
• Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ... Lees meer

Taming the Wind of Desire

Carol Laderman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 29
• Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives... Lees meer

Medicine in China

Paul U Unschuld

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 13
• In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health ... Lees meer

The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 30
• Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of... Lees meer

Susto, a Folk Illness

Arthur J Rubel, Carl W O'Nell, Rolando Collado-Ardon

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 12
• Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to... Lees meer

Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 38
• Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the... Lees meer

A Simple Matter of Salt

Renate Lellep Fernandez

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 25
• Why do certain easily preventable diseases persist in the modern world? Renate Lellep Fernandez sheds light on this paradox by investigating the high ... Lees meer

East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan

Margaret M Lock

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 3
• "An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use o... Lees meer

Lives at Risk

Laverne Kuhnke

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth ce... Lees meer

Medical Ethics in Imperial China

Paul U Unschuld

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth cent... Lees meer

Knowledge, Power, and Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 36
• These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in me... Lees meer

Policies, Plans, and People

Judith Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 17
• Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs cu... Lees meer

Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 32
• Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays... Lees meer

Mammal Skin

V E Sokolov

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Making of Rehabilitation

Glenn Gritzer, Arnold Arluke

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 15
• Focusing on the history of one medical field-rehabilitation medicine-this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that sh... Lees meer

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Arthur Kleinman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 5
• From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship be... Lees meer

Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change

Leith Mullings

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

John M Janzen

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 1
• In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize c... Lees meer