[Sca-cooks] [MEDMED-L] AW: Spices and Medicine: From HistoricalObsession to Research...
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Apr 9 13:29:04 PDT 2013
Curious. I would like to see the rest of this conversation before
commenting. The initial frame of reference and the progression of the
debate are necessary to understanding why a comment about a silly
Europocentric idea is being answered with a Europocentric idea.
As to your question about advance/advancement, in broad terms, advance is
the action of advancing or, as a noun, the act of advancing or a reference
to the thing being advanced; advancement is the state or progression of
advancing. While the words are often used synonymously, the choice may
provide greater precision in ones writing. And why should we use advance
rather than advancement? The first written use of advacement is from 1553
while advance only appears in 1668. Advancement is not a Latinization of
advance, rather advance is a truncation of advancement.
Bear
> Weren't Galen and Hippocrates European? And didn't their ideas continue to
> have a profound influence? If Europe was in decline intellectually, I'm
> not
> sure "Johnny-come-lately" is the right term. But certainly the use of
> spices in medicine had its own history in the West, even if it was
> refined and
> perfected in the East.
>
> Me, I'm more dismayed to see academics perpetuating the tendency to
> over-Latinize perfectly serviceable words like "advance" - do we EVER need
> "advancement"?
>
> "How has Europe’s fascination with spices as both food and medicine
> contributed to the global exchange and advancement of medical knowledge
> from
> medieval times to today? "
>
> Jim Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
>
>
> In a message dated 4/9/2013 6:02:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> Paul-David.Buell at CHARITE.DE writes:
>
> To answer the question, no Europe was very much a backward,
> johnny-come-lately. It was actions outside of Europe that were governing
> especially from
> the Middle East with the Indian Ocean as the power house. Silly
> Europocentric idea for a conference. Shesh. Paul D. Buell
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