Citation
(2003), "Medicine across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Medicine", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 16 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2003.06216dae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Medicine across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Medicine
Medicine across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Medicine
Selin, H. and Shapiro, H.Kluwer Academic Publishers2002ISBN 1 4020 1166 0
Medicine Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Medicine consists of 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the USA and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and Western medicine and religion and medicine. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of medicine and in cultural studies.