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BL
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1037349
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b791719
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| Title & Author
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Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000 /\ edited by Waltraud Ernst.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ;; 13
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1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).
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| ISBN
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0203467108
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: 0585456216
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: 9780585456218
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0415231221
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9780415231220
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Plural medicine, tradition and modernity : historical and contemporary perspectives : views from below and from above / Waltraud Ernst -- Medicine on the margins? Hydropathy and orthodoxy in Britain, 1840-60 / James Bradley -- In search of rational remedies : homoeopathy in nineteenth-century Bengal / David Arnold and Sumit Sarkar -- Arguing science : Unani tibb, hakims and biomedicine in India, 1900-50 / Claudia Liebeskind -- Categorising 'African medicine' : the German discourse on East African healing practices, 1885-1918 / Walter Bruchhausen and Volker Roelcke -- Medical pluralism and the bounding of traditional healing in Swaziland / Ria Reis -- Nurses as culture brokers in twentieth-century South Africa / Anne Digby and Helen Sweet -- Kexue and guanxixue : plurality, tradition and modernity in contemporary Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid -- Spirituality, belief and knowledge : reflections on constructions of Maori healing / Patricia Laing -- Local-global spaces of health : British South Asian mothers and medical pluralism / Kate Reed -- Indian indigenous pharmaceuticals : tradition, modernity and nature / Maarten Bode -- Health for sale : quackery, consumerism and the internet / Michael Hardey -- Limiting pluralism : medical scientism, quackery, and the internet / Ned Vankevich.
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| Abstract
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This book brings together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case studies.
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Cultural pluralism-- Health aspects.
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Medical care, Cross-cultural studies.
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Medical care-- Comparative method.
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National health services, Cross-cultural studies.
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National health services-- Comparative method.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Health Care Issues.
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Medical care-- Comparative method.
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Medical care.
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MEDICAL-- Diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Health Care Delivery.
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MEDICAL-- Health Policy.
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MEDICAL-- Public Health.
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National health services-- Comparative method.
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National health services.
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Sociology, Medical-- history.
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Cultural Diversity.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Medicine, Traditional.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1
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| LC Classification
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RA394.P584 2002
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WA 11.1P737 2002
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| Added Entry
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Ernst, Waltraud,1955-
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