Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an Extraordinary Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is co-author of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (with Nicholas Purcell, Blackwell, 2000) and author of Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (Ashgate, 2008). He is also writing a general book on early hospitals for Yale University Press.

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction
Peregrine Horden

Part I: A Body of What?

Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body?
Helen King

Chapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician's Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque Ladies
Barbara Duden

Chapter 3. When Money became a Humour
Shigehisa Kuriyama

Part II: A Practice with What?

Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?
Emilie Savage-Smith

Chapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical Practice
Peter Jones

Chapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in India
Guy Attewell

Chapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Ellen Messer

Part III: A Balance of What?

Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern Africa
David Parkin

Chapter 9. 'Holism' and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine
Elisabeth Hsu

Chapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of Ayurveda
Francis Zimmermann

Chapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing Practices
Patrizia Bassini

Part IV: What Next?

Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of Moderation
Elisabeth Hsu

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