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Paths to Asian medical knowledge
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leslie/Young, Author.
- Series:
- Comparative studies of health systems and medical care Paths to Asian medical knowledge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Oriental--East Asia--Congresses.
- Medicine, Oriental.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic--Congresses.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
- Medicine, East Asian Traditional.
- Asia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, East Asian Traditional.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART I CHINESE MEDICINE, COSMOPOLITAN MEDICINE, AND OTHER TRADITIONS IN EAST ASIA
- 1. Between Mind and Eye: Japanese Anatomy in the Eighteenth Century
- 2. Epistemologica! Issues and Changing Legitimation: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Twentieth Century
- 3. Time and Text: Approaching Chinese Medical Practice through Analysis of a Published Case
- 4. Winds, Waters, Seeds, and Souls: Folk Concepts of Physiology and Etiology in Chinese Geomancy
- 5. The Fragile Japanese Family: Narratives about Individualism and the Postmodern State
- PART II AYURVEDA, COSMOPOLITAN MEDICINE, AND OTHER TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA
- 6. Death and Nurturance in Indian Systems of Healing
- 7. Science, Experimentation, and Clinical Practice in Ayurveda
- 8. Interpretations of Illness: Syncretism in Modern Ayurveda
- 9. Gentle Purge: The Flower Power of Ayurveda
- 10. Of Ticks, Kings, Spirits, and the Promise of Vaccines
- PART III ISLAMIC HUMORAL TRADITIONS
- 11. The Comparative Study of Greco-Islamic Medicine: The Integration of Medical Knowledge into Local Symbolic Contexts
- 12. A Welcoming Soil: Islamic Humoralism on the Malay Peninsula
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-91093-1
- 0-585-13101-5
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