| Contents |
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. |
