Humanities Homework Help
Humanities Homework Help. 5 questions should be answered based on the readings that i have attached below
Readings:
Hippocrates. “Air, Water, Places.” And “Epidemics I.”
Hudson, Robert P. 1993. “Concepts of Disease in the West.” In The Cambridge World History of Human Diseases, edited by K. F. Kiple, 43-52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kuriyama, Shigehisa. 1993. “Concepts of Disease in East Asia.” In The Cambridge World History of Human Diseases, edited by K. F. Kiple, 52-59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1. The main thesis in Hippocrates’ “Air, Water, Places” is that “all diseases have a natural origin.” What examples did the author provide to support his thesis? (Including counter examples) Give three examples.
- 2. In “Epidemics I,” according to the author, what are the elements that are needed to take into consideration in order to decide the nature of a disease? Use of the 14 cases in the article to point out these elements.
- 3. In Kuriyama’s article, what were the concepts of diseases in East Asia? How did they change over time? What facilitated the changes?
- 4. In Hudson’s article, what were the concepts of diseases in the West? How did they change over time? What facilitated the changes?
- 5. Do you see the similarities and differences between the concepts of disease in East Asia and in the West? What are they? What were the contextual conditions relating to the differences?
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