Book ID: CBB302069217

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies (2020)

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Steinert, Ulrike (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 338
Language: English

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from popular concepts of illness through to specialist discourses on it. Using philological, historical and anthropological approaches, the contributions cover perspectives across time from East Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, spanning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome to Tibet and China. They aim to capture the multiplicity of disease concepts and medical traditions within specific societies, and to investigate the historical dynamics of stability and change linked to such concepts. Providing useful material for comparative research, the volume is a key resource for researchers studying the cultural conceptualisation of illness, including anthropologists, historians and classicists, among others.

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Authors & Contributors
Giaretta, Pierdaniele
Heather Wipfli
Fidora, Alexander
Jessieca Leo
Gaille, Marie
Silberstein, Marc
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine and culture
Health
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine
Classification
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
20th century
18th century
21st century
Medieval
Places
East Asia
Europe
Mediterranean region
China
Levant and Near East
United States
Institutions
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003 May 21)
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations
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