The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?

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Autor(a) principal: Waisse, Silvia
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Circumscribere
Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/circumhc/article/view/55034
Resumo: From governments to the general public, one may ask about the possible contributions of historians, if any, to the understanding and management of global disasters, as e.g. the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Given the confuse situation at the onset of the pandemic in terms of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, a look into past experience with nonconventional medicine seemed relevant. In the present study I surveyed secondary literature on the role of Chinese medicine, Āyurveda, and homeopathy over time. The quantitative results were disappointing: nothing on Āyurveda, and one single study each on Chinese medicine and homeopathy. The quality of the former compensates for the numerical short age. The case of homeopathy is rather sui generis, since this medical system was born and blossomed during epidemics and pandemics. I conclude with a short comment on reference sources, which might serve as point of departure for future studies of Āyurveda in epidemics.
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title The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
spellingShingle The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
Waisse, Silvia
Epidemics
pandemics
nonconventional medicine
history
title_short The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
title_full The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
title_fullStr The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
title_full_unstemmed The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
title_sort The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
author Waisse, Silvia
author_facet Waisse, Silvia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Waisse, Silvia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Epidemics
pandemics
nonconventional medicine
history
topic Epidemics
pandemics
nonconventional medicine
history
description From governments to the general public, one may ask about the possible contributions of historians, if any, to the understanding and management of global disasters, as e.g. the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Given the confuse situation at the onset of the pandemic in terms of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, a look into past experience with nonconventional medicine seemed relevant. In the present study I surveyed secondary literature on the role of Chinese medicine, Āyurveda, and homeopathy over time. The quantitative results were disappointing: nothing on Āyurveda, and one single study each on Chinese medicine and homeopathy. The quality of the former compensates for the numerical short age. The case of homeopathy is rather sui generis, since this medical system was born and blossomed during epidemics and pandemics. I conclude with a short comment on reference sources, which might serve as point of departure for future studies of Āyurveda in epidemics.
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