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This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, psychology, and the life sciences. With the gradual demise of ancient humoralism, the solid fibers appeared on the medical scene both as the basic building unit of the body and as a dynamic agent of life. As such, fiber stands at the heart of eighteenth-century medicine, both iatromechanism and iatro-vitalism. Touching on the cultural aspects of fiber, the Baroque, and the culture of sensibility, this book also challenges the widely held assumption that the eighteenth century was the age of the nerve and instead offers an alternative model of fiber

This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of 'modern life'. Essays within the collection examine ways in which cancer, suicide, and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of 'new' ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional, and intellectual changes that contributed to modern medical practice. The volume traces ways that physiological and psychological problems were being constituted in relation to each other, and to their social contexts, and offers new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century.

Intro -- Amending the Abject Body -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- OBJECTIFICATION AND FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS -- ABJECTION, AGENCY, AND IDENTIFICATION -- 1. Abjection -- PAIN -- COMMUNICATION AND EXPULSION -- TRANSGRESSION, IDENTIFICATION, AND COMMUNITY -- 2. Normalizing the Body -- THE SCAR -- BODY LOATHING -- INDUSTRY SUCCESS -- UNIVERSAL BEAUTY -- 3. Outside-In -- 4. "I'm Doing It for Me" -- "ANA'S ALOHA BODY" -- "FATIMA'S FLAWLESS NOSE" -- "LIGHT IN JODI'S EYES" -- 5. Making Over Abjection -- POSITIVE THINKING -- UPDATING AND UPGRADING -- FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- PASSING -- HAPPY AGING -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Preliminary material /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Dedication /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Preface /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Acknowledgements /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain'd in an Easy and Natural Method /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- John Wesley's Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Bibliography /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Index /Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine.

AbstractAs members of the Mexican diaspora acculturate/assimilate to life in the United States they gain skills that help them improve their socioeconomic status and overcome barriers to the mainstream American healthcare system. Thus, we might expect better health among more acculturated Mexicans. However, most of the research conducted during the past 20 years shows that the health of Mexicans living in the United States deteriorates as acculturation increases. This suggests that certain health promoting aspects of Mexican culture are lost as migrants adapt to and adopt American ways of life. This paper is the first step in testing the hypothesis that declining health among acculturated people of Mexican descent is related to a loss of traditional medical knowledge.During an ethnographic study of women's medical knowledge in an unacculturated Mexican migrant community in Athens, Georgia, I observed many ways low‐income, undocumented migrants maintain good health. Migrant women encourage health‐promoting behaviors and treat sick family members with a variety of home remedies that appear to be effective according to chemical and pharmacological analyses. Additionally, migrant women in Athens learn how to navigate the American medical and social service systems and overcome barriers to professional healthcare services using information provided through social networks. Nevertheless, migrant women often prefer to treat sick family at home and indicated a preference for Mexican folk medicines over professional medical care in most situations.This case study suggests that migration and diaspora need not always lead to disease. The maintenance of a Mexican culture that is distinct from the rest of American society helps ensure that traditional medical knowledge is not lost, while the social networks that link Mexicans to each other and to their homeland help minimize threats to health, which are usually associated with migration. Thus, increased access to professional medical care may not improve the health of migrants if it comes with the loss of traditional medical knowledge.