Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 18 [Paperback]

J.C. Smart (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research | Publication Date: September 30, 2003

This title consists of 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book should fill a gap in both the history of medicine and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Each contribution, (solid studies of literature) are written by native professional researchers, who are famous in their field [...] The consequence is that the contributions in the handbook are based on similar research, this presents us with a wide perspective course of action, which can be touched on for future research. It is evident that each research group who is involved in Higher Education should have a subscription for this book." (Hans van Hout, University of Amsterdam) "There are several reasons why the Handbooks deserve a wider audience, especially among scholars, policy-makers and practitioners in the United Kingdom. Firstly the shift to mass higher education in England and the other home countries, although two decades behind the American expansion, has brought shared problems and common worries, notably in relation to access, funding and quality. [...] A second reason, then, for bringing the Handbooks to a wider audience would be to force consideration of the need for (and value of) a parallel series: one focused mainly but not exclusively on the British or, more ambitiously, the European context. [...] The strength of the series (for the outsider at least) is its Americanism. For overseas students and scholars, the Handbooks provide a ready guide to the shifting contours of American higher education and the approaches to research within that system. Alongside synoptic studies in the mainline American journals of higher education, where Handbook chapters are frequently cited, the volumes should be a first port of call for the overseas researcher and the scholar-administrator. Moreover, since 1988, the Handbooks have offered readers an appreciation of the public service and career dimensions of American higher education, by way of an opening chapter in which senior figures volunteer personal and professional reflections on a life in and around the academy." (Gareth Parry, School of Education, University of Sheffield. (Journal Teaching in Higher Education)

Product Details

• Paperback: 748 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402012322
• ISBN-13: 978-1402012327
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,119,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rather than anchoring himself in a narrowly defined disciplinary location, Dr. Lulat is by training and by research inclination a social scientist--in the sense that his entire academic career (education, research, and teaching) has been, and continues to be, fundamentally multidisciplinary--as attested by the principal area to which most of his work belongs: Africana Studies (which comprises both African Studies and studies of the African Diaspora throughout the world). It is not without reason that in addition to his doctorate, he holds three masters degrees and a postgraduate certificate across several disciplines. Moreover, his educational career spans universities in four countries on three continents. His work, therefore, comes out of a pioneering and now well-established scholarly tradition of multidisciplinary research that has been the hallmark of Africana Studies. In keeping with one of his mantra's that "the present is always historical," Dr Lulat's current research focus is the political economy of world history from an African perspective that seeks to locate Africa's place in that history.