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The essays of this book are in the Medical Humanities, specifically
Medicine and Music. It is hoped that this book shows how Humanistic
inquiry and historical study are informed by science and
medicine.This interplay of Music and Medicine sheds light on the
Humanities.We show how the Humanities are relevant to medicine
making one more sensitive to the needs of others and well rounded.
We show how an appreciation of the Humanities can enrich and deepen
knowledge of the history of medicine and allied sciences. The book
attempts to demonstrate how historical research can increase our
understanding and widened perspective of medicine and science. It
recognizes the humanistic and cultural dimension of the history of
medicine. It attempts to fosters a wider historical context of
medicine, elucidated by the Medical Humanities.
Essays in the History of Nephrology is the second in a five-volume
series in Medical Humanities, which attempt to make physicians more
compassionate, caring, empathetic and better devoted to the calling
of enhancing longevity and quality of life, doing no harm, and
eliminating pain, while simultaneously striving for the ideal
physician as a well rounded, multi-facted, versatile, diversely
talented practitioner with a wide breadth of intellectual
interests: in other words, "a Renaissance man." The ten essays in
this volume deepen our understanding of the research of Richard
Bright, Sir Robert Christison, Pierre Rayer, Sir William Osler, and
others. They apply the methods of the discipline of history,
drawing on primary and secondary sources, as it relates to the
uncovering the modern evolution from the 18th to 20th centuries of
major breakthroughs, turning points, paradigm shifts, and widening
of areas of knowledge in the evolution of nephrology in the field
of medicine.
Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of
persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals
and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social,
political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach,
power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and
groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and
within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts.
Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawing upon
their ethnographic research in Nepal to examine closely how selves,
identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships
through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse
of nationalism. The diversity of peoples, recent political
transformations, and nation-building efforts make Nepal an
especially rich locale to examine people's struggles to define and
position themselves. But the authors move beyond geographical
boundaries to more theoretical terrain to problematicize the ways
in which people recreate or contest certain identities and
positions. Various authors explore how people-positioned by gender,
ethnicity, and locale-use cultural genres to produce aspects of
identities and experiences; they examine how subjectivities,
agencies and cultural worlds co-develop and are shaped through
engagement with cultural forms; and they portray the appropriation
of multiple voices for self and group formation. As such, this
collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the
mutual constitution of selves and society.
This seminal work in several fields--person-centered anthropology,
comparative psychology, and social history--documents the inner
life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same
time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds
interact. "Tahitians "is an ethnography focused on private but
culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for
the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural,
and personal spheres.
"This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No
review could substitute for reading it."--Margaret Mead, " American
Anthropologist "
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