| Medical Traditions: Exploring the Field Contributor(s): Touwaide, Alain (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110600595 ISBN-13: 9783110600599 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $90.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2024 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of July 14, 2024 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Physical Information: 150 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |