University of Oxford

Epistemologies of Healing Series with Berghahn Publihers

General Editors: 

David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Elisabeth Hsu, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

This series in medical anthropology, called ‘Epistemologies of Healing', publishes monographs and collected essays on indigenous (so-called ‘traditional') medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethno-biological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them. The studies concern notions of sickness, misfortune, and well-being, the body, the mind, the senses, feelings and emotions, nature, the environment, lifestyles, and narratives of medical knowledge, analysed through a prism of historical and socio-political awareness. Publisher is Marion Berghahn, Series Editors are Dr Elisabeth Hsu and Prof David Parkin, members on the Editorial Committee include Prof Mary-jo DelVecchio Good, Prof Michael Lambek, and Dr Marina Roseman.