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Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and International Health, Vol 1)
Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy Humoral Medicine in the New World - Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and International Health, Vol 1
Author: George M Foster
The roots of humoral medicine reach back to Hippocrates and the Greek doctrine of the four humors. Via Persian and Arab physicians, this medical system was elaborated upon, and passed on to Western Europe where it became "establishment" medicine until the rise of biomedicine in the 17th and 18th centuries. In Hippocrates' Latin American Legac...  more », Foster traces the routes whereby European humoral medicine reached the Americas after the arrival of Columbus.
ISBN-13: 9782881246104
ISBN-10: 2881246109
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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