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.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionPeregrine HordenPart I: A Body of What?Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body?Helen KingChapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque LadiesBarbara DudenChapter 3. When Money became a HumourShigehisa KuriyamaPart II: A Practice with What?Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?Emilie Savage-SmithChapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical PracticePeter JonesChapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in IndiaGuy AttewellChapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century MexicoEllen MesserPart III: A Balance of What?Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern AfricaDavid ParkinChapter 9. ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese MedicineElisabeth HsuChapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of ĀyurvedaFrancis ZimmermannChapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing PracticesPatrizia BassiniPart IV: What Next?Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of ModerationElisabeth HsuIndex

“The collection presents a fascinating comparative history of the concept of balance throughout medical practice across the world, with disparate chapters well connected through thematic discussion.” · Social History of Medicine“The book is a magisterial collection...In spite of the wide range of medical traditions concerned—from different continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and at different epochs (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary)—the book is coherently structured around a few core issues that consistently link all the chapters. Rarely will you find in a single volume so many authoritative scholars talking about the specificities of their field of research and, at the same time, constructing a comparative dialogue.” · Caterina Guenzi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris“This is a model of what an edited volume can and should be, bringing a wide range of geographic and temporal frames into dialogue to help rethink a notion that is arguably crucial to each one of them. It is a superior study, and I am confident that it will become a classic volume in the history of medicine.” · Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia“This is an excellent collection of essays…[that] provides an extremely good basis for comparative studies. There is no similar collection, to my knowledge.” · Vivian Nutton, University College London

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.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionPeregrine HordenPart I: A Body of What?Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body?Helen KingChapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque LadiesBarbara DudenChapter 3. When Money became a HumourShigehisa KuriyamaPart II: A Practice with What?Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?Emilie Savage-SmithChapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical PracticePeter JonesChapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in IndiaGuy AttewellChapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century MexicoEllen MesserPart III: A Balance of What?Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern AfricaDavid ParkinChapter 9. ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese MedicineElisabeth HsuChapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of ĀyurvedaFrancis ZimmermannChapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing PracticesPatrizia BassiniPart IV: What Next?Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of ModerationElisabeth HsuIndex

“The collection presents a fascinating comparative history of the concept of balance throughout medical practice across the world, with disparate chapters well connected through thematic discussion.” · Social History of Medicine“The book is a magisterial collection...In spite of the wide range of medical traditions concerned—from different continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and at different epochs (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary)—the book is coherently structured around a few core issues that consistently link all the chapters. Rarely will you find in a single volume so many authoritative scholars talking about the specificities of their field of research and, at the same time, constructing a comparative dialogue.” · Caterina Guenzi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris“This is a model of what an edited volume can and should be, bringing a wide range of geographic and temporal frames into dialogue to help rethink a notion that is arguably crucial to each one of them. It is a superior study, and I am confident that it will become a classic volume in the history of medicine.” · Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia“This is an excellent collection of essays…[that] provides an extremely good basis for comparative studies. There is no similar collection, to my knowledge.” · Vivian Nutton, University College London

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.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroductionPeregrine HordenPart I: A Body of What?Chapter 1. Female Fluids in the Hippocratic Corpus: How Solid was the Humoral Body?Helen KingChapter 2. Fluxes and Stagnations: A Physician’s Perception and Treatment of Humours in Baroque LadiesBarbara DudenChapter 3. When Money became a HumourShigehisa KuriyamaPart II: A Practice with What?Chapter 4. Were the Four Humours Fundamental to Medieval Islamic Medical Practice?Emilie Savage-SmithChapter 5. Complexio and experimentum: Tensions in Late Medieval Medical PracticePeter JonesChapter 6. Foundationalism and Instrumentality: Rethinking Humoral Paradigms in Early Twentieth-Century Yunani tibb in IndiaGuy AttewellChapter 7. Hot Cold Classifications and Balancing Actions in Mesoamerican Diet and Health: Theory and Ethnography of Practice in Twentieth-Century MexicoEllen MesserPart III: A Balance of What?Chapter 8. Balancing Diversity and Well-Being: Words, Concepts and Practice in Eastern AfricaDavid ParkinChapter 9. ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion: The Case of Anger in Chinese MedicineElisabeth HsuChapter 10. Aiming for Congruence: The Golden Rule of ĀyurvedaFrancis ZimmermannChapter 11. Harmony or Hierarchy? The Mindful Body and the Sacred Landscape in Tibetan Healing PracticesPatrizia BassiniPart IV: What Next?Chapter 12. What Next? Balance in Medical Practice and the Medico-Moral Nexus of ModerationElisabeth HsuIndex

“The collection presents a fascinating comparative history of the concept of balance throughout medical practice across the world, with disparate chapters well connected through thematic discussion.” · Social History of Medicine“The book is a magisterial collection...In spite of the wide range of medical traditions concerned—from different continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and at different epochs (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary)—the book is coherently structured around a few core issues that consistently link all the chapters. Rarely will you find in a single volume so many authoritative scholars talking about the specificities of their field of research and, at the same time, constructing a comparative dialogue.” · Caterina Guenzi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris“This is a model of what an edited volume can and should be, bringing a wide range of geographic and temporal frames into dialogue to help rethink a notion that is arguably crucial to each one of them. It is a superior study, and I am confident that it will become a classic volume in the history of medicine.” · Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia“This is an excellent collection of essays…[that] provides an extremely good basis for comparative studies. There is no similar collection, to my knowledge.” · Vivian Nutton, University College London