Sociology 3370F/G Lecture 3: Week 3
30 Jan 2019
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Shamanism: value-laden term described by european colonizers as primitive , Humoralism: a plural health system crossing boundaries between natural/scienti c; traditional/modern; local/translocal. 3 main humoral medical systems: traditional chinese medicine (tcm); ayurveda and. Latin american hot/cold health systems with di erent o shoots across geographic regions. Humoral medical systems share similar theory of pathology in terms of imbalance of opposing energies within one"s body and environment (ex. hot/cold; wet/dry; light/ dark) History of european humoralism: ancient greek and arabic medicine; Humoral traced back to the writings of hippocrates (460 and 377 bc) Greek physician galen (129-200 ad) credited for systematizing humoralism, and his work was disseminated by arab scholars in the middle ages throughout europe. The largest humoral medical systems, originated in china encompassing 5 main components: herbal medicine, acupuncture, therapeutic massage (tui na, meditation (qi gong) and relaxation techniques (tai chi, moxibustion.
