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About this book
Any exploration of plural medicine including the historical perspective needs to be aware of the conflict between regular and irregular healers which existed already in the pre-modern era, although distinctive features such as scientific, alternative or traditional which are so familiar to us today did not yet play a role. In the early modern period we observe a complex array of heterogeneous medical ideas and practices which has not much in common with the kind of pluralism or plurality which we can find in modern health care systems in Europe and non-western countries (e.g. India, Japan).
Comparing the medical market place in pre-modern, 19th, and early 20th-century Western Europe with the present situation in health care, this book deals with the historical development as well as with the present state of medical pluralism in and outside Europe. The studies come up with data and evidence from a variety of sources, suggesting that unconventional medicine has been a persistent presence in health care over the past two to four hundred years. The contributors were drawn from different academic disciplines such as medical history, medicine, sociology, and anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Medical Plurality, Medical Pluralism and Plural Medicine. A critical reappraisal of recent scholarship
- Medical Pluralism in Early Modern Germany
- Medical Pluralism and the Medical Marketplace in Early Modern Italy
- Medical Pluralism in Early Modern France
- ‘The Diffusion of Useful Information’: Household Practice, Domestic Medical Guides and Medical Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Medical Pluralism in Britain 1850–1930
- Medical Pluralism in France (19th to early 20th century)
- Medical Plurality and Medical Pluralism in Germany (19th and early 20th century)
- Medical Pluralism in Germany
- Medical Pluralism – The Italian Case
- Medical Pluralism in the UK – A Personal View
- Medical Pluralism in Health Care – Experience from New Delhi
- Medical Pluralism – Past and Present: Towards a more precise concept