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This comprehensive volume collects 19 scholarly essays exploring medical knowledge and beliefs across diverse global cultures, including Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan traditions. The essays examine the profound connections between medicine and culture, demonstrating how medical practices reflect and are shaped by the societies that developed them. Comparative analyses explore the relationship between Chinese and Western medicine alongside religious perspectives. Each essay is richly illustrated and supported by extensive bibliographies, making this an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, and students of medical anthropology, cultural studies, and the history of medicine seeking to understand healthcare practices within their cultural contexts.

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Higher Education Handbook Volume 18 features 19 in-depth essays examining medical systems across Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan cultures.

Each essay in this Springer publication includes comprehensive illustrations and extensive bibliographies to support scholarly research and further exploration.

The handbook explores comparative medicine perspectives, including direct analysis of Chinese and Western medical traditions and their cultural-religious foundations.

Essays address the fundamental connections between medical practices and culture, revealing how societies' beliefs shape their healthcare approaches and medical knowledge systems.

This title serves medical anthropologists, cultural historians, and academic researchers studying non-Western medicine and cross-cultural healthcare traditions.

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14 November 2008
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