East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan : Varieties of Medical Experience / Margaret M. Lock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lock, Margaret M., Author.

Series:

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; 4

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of an important dimension of life in Japan... In well-written chapters dealing with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and the human body, detailed description of kanpo clinics, herbal pharmacies, acupuncture and moxibustion clinics, shiatsu and anma clinics, East Asian medical schools as well as the interactions between various providers and patients (customers), Lock develops the cultural thesis... In the process, she provides information on things most visitors to Japan have seen, heard, felt, and smelled but rarely understood." -Journal of Asian Studies "Breaks important new ground.. Lock discusses concrete medical practice and its cultural significance in general.... rich in comparisons, engrossing to read, and analytically penetrating.... an important and absorbing book. It is an engaging account of how at least some Japanese people respond to universal problems. Most readers will obtain from it their first clear impression of what East Asian medicine actually is and does." -Journal of Japanese Studies "Of considerable significance for comparative cross-cultural studies of medicine, of which this is the best account for a Japanese setting that we now possess." --Monumenta Nipponica "Both Japan specialists and medical anthropologists will be stimulated, challenged, and engaged by this book.' --Medical Anthropology Newsletter This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. "An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sou

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Paperback edition

REFERENCES

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLES

PREFACE

1. Introduction: The Pendulum Swings to Holism

2. Early Japanese Medical Beliefs and Practices

3. Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations of East Asian Medicine

4. History of East Asian Medicine in Japan

5. Early Socialization

6. The Interrelationship of Socialization Practices and Medical Beliefs

7. A Kanpō Clinic: The Patients

8. A Kanpō Clinic: The Doctors

9. Herbal Pharmacies

10. Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinics: The Setting and the Patients

11. Massage: Shiatsu and Amma

12. East Asian Medical Schools

13. Philosophy and Attitudes of Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Massage Specialists

14. Holism and East Asian Therapy

15. Doctor and Patient Relationships in Cosmopolitan Medicine

16. Conclusions

GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE TERMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780520341395

0520341392

OCLC:

1163878943