Traditional therapy was dominant in Ghana.However,by the 19th to 20th centuries,scientific medicine had been fully introduced to the people of Ghana.There is a growing tendency in the research of medicine in Ghana.Som...Traditional therapy was dominant in Ghana.However,by the 19th to 20th centuries,scientific medicine had been fully introduced to the people of Ghana.There is a growing tendency in the research of medicine in Ghana.Some scholarly works had been published on Western medicine;however,all these works had not been brought together in analyzing the history of scientific medicine in Ghana.This work conducts an opportunistic historical overview of Western medicine and health in Ghana through the twentieth century.This is to bring to light some scholarly literature on Western medicine in Ghana,of which further research could be conducted.展开更多
In the 1960s and 1970s-as strncturalism, post-structuralism, and literary criticism seeped into history--the "linguistic turn" or "narrative turn," leading to what is known as postmodem philosophy of history, took...In the 1960s and 1970s-as strncturalism, post-structuralism, and literary criticism seeped into history--the "linguistic turn" or "narrative turn," leading to what is known as postmodem philosophy of history, took place in Western philosophy of history. In the past forty years of reform and opening up to the outside world, and especially in the most recent two or three decades, Chinese research on Western postmodem philosophy of history has proceeded from overall review to in-depth research, and then on to reflection, criticism, and even transcendence. Neither the rethinking of historical objectivity and rationality nor the reconstruction of convictions about historical reason can work without the profound insights or theoretical tensions of postmodern philosophy of history.展开更多
文摘Traditional therapy was dominant in Ghana.However,by the 19th to 20th centuries,scientific medicine had been fully introduced to the people of Ghana.There is a growing tendency in the research of medicine in Ghana.Some scholarly works had been published on Western medicine;however,all these works had not been brought together in analyzing the history of scientific medicine in Ghana.This work conducts an opportunistic historical overview of Western medicine and health in Ghana through the twentieth century.This is to bring to light some scholarly literature on Western medicine in Ghana,of which further research could be conducted.
文摘In the 1960s and 1970s-as strncturalism, post-structuralism, and literary criticism seeped into history--the "linguistic turn" or "narrative turn," leading to what is known as postmodem philosophy of history, took place in Western philosophy of history. In the past forty years of reform and opening up to the outside world, and especially in the most recent two or three decades, Chinese research on Western postmodem philosophy of history has proceeded from overall review to in-depth research, and then on to reflection, criticism, and even transcendence. Neither the rethinking of historical objectivity and rationality nor the reconstruction of convictions about historical reason can work without the profound insights or theoretical tensions of postmodern philosophy of history.