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Bates, Don (ed.), Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xiii + 369 pp.

Resum

However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relying on ancient texts. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of this, scholarly medical knowledge offers a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge generally. The contributors to this volume are all specialists in the history or anthropology of these traditions, and their essays range from historical investigations to studies of present-day practices.

Contents:
* 1. Scholarly ways of knowing: an introduction / Don Bates
-- Part I. Scholarly Medicine in the West:
* 2. Epistemological arguments in early Greek medicine in comparativist perspective / G. E. R. Lloyd
* 3. Autopsia, historia and what women know: the authority of women in Hippocratic gynaecology / Lesley Dean-Jones
* 4. The growth of medical empiricism / Robert James Hankinson
* 5. Conrad (1995), "Scolarship and social context: a ..."
* 6. Wallis (1995), "The experience of the book ..."
* 7. García Ballester (1994), "«Artifex factivus sanitatis» ..."
* 8. Epistemology and learned medicine in early modern England / Andrew Wear
-- Part II. Chinese Traditional Medicine
-- Part III. Ayurvedic Medicine

Matèries

Història de la medicina