[Sca-cooks] [MEDMED-L] AW: Spices and Medicine: From HistoricalObsession to Research...

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Sat Apr 13 04:15:36 PDT 2013


I gather this has to do with this conference

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spicesandmedicine/conference-may-2013

but I still haven't seen a reason for the original post.

Johnnae

On Apr 9, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Terry Decker wrote:

> 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.
> snipped
> Bear
> 
April 9, 2013 10:32:28 AM EDT
	To: 	Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

>> 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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