Asian medicine and globalization

Asian medicine and globalization

by Alter, Joseph S.

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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.

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  • Full title :Asian medicine and globalization / edited by Joseph S. Alter.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:©2005.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi 187 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780812205251, 0812205251
  • DOI:10.9783/9780812205251
  • oclc:ocn607611334
  • LC Classification:GN625
  • Dewey Decimal:306.4/61/095

Table of Contents

Introduction : The politics of culture and medicine -- Āyurvedic acupuncture--transnational nationalism : ambivalence about the origin and authenticity of medical knowledge / Joseph S. Alter -- Deviant airs in "traditional" Chinese medicine / Vivienne Lo and Sylvia Schroer -- Reinventing traditional medicine : method, institutional change, and the manufacture of drugs and medication in late colonial India / S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina -- Health and medicine in British India and the Dutch Indies : a comparative study / Deepak Kumar -- Nationalism, transnationalism, and the politics of "traditional" Indian medicine for HIV/AIDS / Cecilia Van Hollen -- Mapping science and nation in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Sanskrit gynecologies in postmodernity : the commodization of Indian medicine in alternative medical and new-age discourses on women's health / Martha Ann Selby -- China reconstructs : cosmetic surgery and nationalism in the reform era / Susan Brownell.

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Subjects

Asia Asia -- Social life and customs Asie -- Mœurs et coutumes Āyurveda Āyurveda -- Asie Cross-Cultural Comparison Cross-cultural studies Cultural Characteristics Ethnomédecine -- Asie Études transculturelles Internationality Manners and customs Médecine orientale Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Asia Medicine, East Asian Traditional Medicine, Oriental Moeurs et coutumes SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigrati… Traditional medicine

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Alter, Joseph S.

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