The Body in Balance : : Humoral Medicines in Practice / / ed. by Peregrine Horden, Elisabeth Hsu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Attewell, Guy,; Bassini, Patrizia,; Duden, Barbara,; Horden, Peregrine,; Hsu, Elisabeth,; King, Helen,; Kuriyama, Shigehisa,; Messer, Ellen,; Murray Jones, Peter,; Parkin, David,; Savage-Smith, Emilie,; Zimmermann, Francis,
• HerausgeberIn: Horden, Peregrine,; Hsu, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A Body of What? -- Chapter 1 Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus How Solid was the Humoral Body? -- Chapter 2 Fluxes and Stagnations A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies -- Chapter 3 When Money Became a Humour -- A Practice with What? -- Chapter 4 Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice? -- Chapter 5 Complexio and Experimentum Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice -- Chapter 6 Yunani Tibb and Foundationalism in Early Twentieth-Century India Humoral Paradigms between Critique and Concordance -- Chapter 7 Hot/Cold Classifi cations and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico -- A Balance of What? -- Chapter 8 Balancing Diversity and Well-being Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa -- Chapter 9 ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 10 Aiming for Congruence The Golden Rule of Åyurveda -- Chapter 11 Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices -- What Next? -- Chapter 12 What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-moral Nexus of Moderation -- Index