Hippocrates' Latin American legacy : humoral medicine in the New World /
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| Author / Creator: | Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006 |
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| Imprint: | Langhorne, Pa. : Gordon and Breach, c1994. |
| Description: | xvii,242p. 23cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1471032 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Humoral Medicine: Its Three World Variants
- 2. Humoral Theory in Tzintzuntzan: Basic Principles
- 3. Humoral Theory in Tzintzuntzan: Disease Causality
- 4. Humoral Theory in Tzintzuntzan: Therapy
- 5. The Ascription of Humoral Values
- 6. The Neutral Value in Humoral Medical Systems
- 7. The Validating Role of Humoral Theory in Therapy
- 8. The Transmission of Humoral Medicine to the New World
- 9. The American Origin Case
- 10. Humoral Elements in American Popular Medicine
- Appendix - Tzintzuntzan Humoral Values by Percentages.