The Medical Tradition
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Author | : Lawrence I. Conrad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1995-08-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521475648 |
This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine.
Author | : Alain Touwaide |
Publisher | : de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110600599 |
Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations over a long period of time in the past, carefully handed down through generations, and subsequently recorded in writing and preserved in books now scattered in libraries across the world. Rarely the object of a specific study, they are approached here as a field in its own right. The present essay explores such key topics as the impact of tradition approach on medical historiography, the relation between written documents and practice, and the transmission of knowledge across time and cultures with its possible modifications and their processes and causes. Though based on a decade-long close scrutiny of the Greek medical tradition, it establishes parallels with other traditions, and invites not only to do comparative study, but also to apply to other traditions the approach proposed here. By laying down the foundations for a fresh analysis of ancient medical knowledge as a discipline, Medical Traditions - Exploring the Field will be a reference for any scholar interested in the medical record of the past, be it for the sake of history or for renewed applications in present day.
Author | : Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9788120817685 |
This volume of studies presents the papers given at the second workshop of the European Ayurdic society, a group which was formed in Groningen in 1983. The volume is thus a sequel to Proceedings of the international workshop on priorities in the study of Indian medicine. The workshop was held over a period of three days in September 1985 in the congenial surroundings of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine ii London, and it provided a splendid opportunity for scholars in the field of Indian medical history to meet in one place and to share the latest research in their respective areas.
Author | : W. F. Bynum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2006-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521475244 |
This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.
Author | : Farr Curlin |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2021-08-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0268200874 |
Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of “health care services” for the sake of the patient’s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange. Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient’s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics.
Author | : Iris F. F. Benzie |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1439807167 |
The global popularity of herbal supplements and the promise they hold in treating various disease states has caused an unprecedented interest in understanding the molecular basis of the biological activity of traditional remedies. Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular ef
Author | : Dean T. Jamison |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 1449 |
Release | : 2006-04-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0821361805 |
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Author | : Waltraud Ernst |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134736029 |
This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.
Author | : W. F. Bynum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2006-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521475655 |
This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.
Author | : Ronald George Moore |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Alternative medicine |
ISBN | : 9781845456726 |
"'This is a fascinating and beautiful organized and written manuscript'-Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis.