EMP 804 B. Williams 3 crediTs
Energy Medicine in the History of Science II
Description
This course explores the historical sources of energy medicine. Students will study their medical modality within developing scientific and philosophical movements. Independent and guided readings will be used to explore historical texts and scholarly research studies. Specific topics addressed in this course include: history of science in world cultures, interaction of scientific cultures, epistemology, theology and medicine, and energy and healing as concepts.
Objectives
After completion of this course students will:
- Understand the difference between primary and secondary literatures
- Master search and retrieval methods appropriate to their individual research
- Understand the major historical and cultural threads of energy medicine
- Explain the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their own chosen medical techniques and philosophy
Texts
- Alfred Crosby The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society
- Shigehisa Kuriyama The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
- Felicitas Goodman Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality, Religion in a
Pluralistic World
- Evelyn Fox Keller Refiguring Life
- Ken Wilbur A Theory of Everything, an Integral Vision for Business, Politics
Science, and Spirituality
- Peter Gardella Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure.
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