fwd query: history of neuroscience in nonwestern cultures
The following query is forwarded from my colleague and friend Jane Lubischer [http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jllubisc/www/], who is on faculty at North Carolina State University. If you send responses to the list, please also copy them to her at: jane_lubischer@ncsu.edu thanks, Russell Johnson FORWARDED QUERY: I was reading an article about whether the natural sciences are multicultural, whether they should be, and to what extent this has meaning for the natural sciences. One issue was the contribution of non-western cultures to our knowledge base and the extent to which such contributions are not acknowledged -- they disappear into "our" science and we maintain a eurocentric view of where the knowledge/ideas came from. A related issue is the numerous examples of knowledge that we "discovered" many hundreds (or thousands) of years after another culture had developed the idea. So I was wondering to what extent this has occurred in the neurosciences, hoping to learn about specific instances that I could incorporate into a history of neuroscience course (or even into my intro to neuroscience course, if i can add a little more historical perspective to it). Thanks for your help. Jane Lubischer