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Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions / edited by Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou Xun.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14.
- Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Healing--Asia.
- Medicine--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Asia.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- India.
- Asia, Eastern.
- Asia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Religion and Medicine.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- India.
- Asia, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Disease management in medical and ritual contexts. The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular / Helen Lambert
- Like an Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist / Brigitte Sébastia
- Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity and resistance among Bengali Muslims / Fabrizio M. Ferrari
- Wong Tai Sin: the divine and healing in Hong Kong / Mark Greene
- Part II: Religious and medical explanatory models. Ghost exorcism, memory, and healing in Hinduism / Daniel Cohen
- Storytelling and accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature / Anthony Cerulli
- Part III: Cultural interfaces and collisions. The method-and-wisdom model in the theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine / Vesna A. Wallace
- Balancing tradition alongside a progressively scientific Tibetan medical system / Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan
- Diagnostic techniques of Chinese medical traditions and their interface with the globalization of medical practice / Nancy Holroyde-Downing
- Healing Zen: exploring the brain on bowing / Paula R. Arai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781315776262
- 131577626X
- Publisher Number:
- 99985537131
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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