Why is There a History of Medicine?

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If the human body has remained the same in the past few thousand years, why have our approaches to its treatment varied so much? How can an ailment exist in only one part of the world, and not another? Why have so many treatments in the history of Western medicine come to seem so strange to us now? This episode with Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama is about many interesting questions in the history of medicine.