Asian Medicine and Globalization.
Title:
Asian Medicine and Globalization.
Author:
Alter, Joseph S.
ISBN:
9780812205251
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Series:
Encounters with Asia
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Politics of Culture and Medicine -- 2. Ayurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge -- 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine -- 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India -- 5. Health and Medicine in British India and the Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study -- 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/AIDS -- 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China -- 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New-Age Discourses on Women's Health -- 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era -- Notes -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east in the form of plastic surgery, these systems of meaning become inextricably interrelated. The essays in this volume consider the larger implications of transmissions between cultures.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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