"Six children with clairvoyant powers, a mysterious being called the King of Distortion, and a creature that feeds on human fear--these may seem unconnected, but they all have two things in common. First, they were involved in events that potentially put the entire world at risk…
Examines the range of non-Western responses to Western medicine across the spectrum of Western imperialist influence, from Japan in the East to the Navajo of North America in the West. The text aims to make a contribution to the debate about the relationship between knowledge an…
Western medicine as contested knowledge
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophy and true philosophy -- 2 The air of towns -- 3 Sapientia and scientia: the cloister and the school -- 4 Nature before the friars -- 5 Heresy and Do…
