Western Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Medicine write by Irvine Loudon. This book was released on 1997. Western Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follows the advance of western medicine from ancient Greece, through the contributions of the great Islamic physicians, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans and organ transplants. Highlighting the great medical discoveries, contributors cover such topics as the relationship in the Renaissance between medicine and art, the tension between the church and an increasingly secularized medical professional class, epidemics and the geography of disease, and changing attitudes towards childbirth, mental disease, and the doctor-patient relationship. c. Book News Inc.
Medicine and Western Civilization
Medicine and Western Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medicine and Western Civilization write by David J. Rothman. This book was released on 1995. Medicine and Western Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.
Physicians of Western Medicine
Physicians of Western Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physicians of Western Medicine write by Robert A. Hahn. This book was released on 1984-12-31. Physicians of Western Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, powerful, provocative. What medicine proclaims itself to be - unified, scientific, biological and not social, non-judgmental - it is shown not to resemble very much. Those matters about which medicine keeps fairly silent, it turns out, come closer to being central to its clinical practice - managing errors and learning to conduct a shared moral dis course about mistakes, handling issues of competence and competition among biomedical practitioners, practicing in value-laden contexts on problems for which social science is a more relevant knowledge base than biological science, integrating folk and scientific models of illness in clinical communication, among a large number of highly pertinent ethnographic insights that illuminate medicine in the chapters that follow.
The Essential Guide to Western Botanical Medicine
The Essential Guide to Western Botanical Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Guide to Western Botanical Medicine write by Christa Sinadinos. This book was released on 1917-04-01. The Essential Guide to Western Botanical Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine write by Thomas Avery Garran. This book was released on 2008-01-22. Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to exclusively use Chinese medical theories and terminology to guide practitioners of Chinese medicine in the use of Western herbs • Written entirely according to the theory, diagnosis, and treatment paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) • Explains how to combine and modify the standard TCM formulas to non-Chinese herbs suitable for Western practitioners • Includes 58 monographs of common Western healing herbs, detailing how each plant is used clinically The ever-growing number of Chinese medicine practitioners in the West has brought about an amalgamation of many styles of Chinese medicine and various other forms of medicine from around the world. This book addresses the increasing demand for knowledge of how to integrate plants from outside the standard Chinese materia medica into the fold of Chinese medical practices in the West. It is the first in-depth guide to using Western herbs exclusively according to the theories, diagnoses, and treatments of traditional Chinese medicine that harmonizes the unique terminology and theories of TCM with other botanical medicines. The book contains 58 monographs, illustrated with full-color photographs, of herbs commonly used by Western herbalists. Each herb is grouped by the basic categorization for medicinals in Chinese medicine, such as Herbs that Resolve the Exterior and Herbs that Regulate Blood. The monographs detail the energetics, function and indication, channels entered, dosage and preparation, and contraindications of each plant. The author also explains how to use the herbs to modify standard formulas used in everyday Chinese herbal medicine, based on his own clinical experience. An appendix of Western Analogs for Chinese Herbs further highlights 40 Chinese medicinals that have related species growing in the West.
