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Asian medicine and globalization /

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 implic...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Alter, Joseph S.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2005]
©2005
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Encounters with asia
Subjects:
Ayurveda > Asie.
Ethnom decine > Asie.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > Asia.
Traditional medicine > Asia.
Ayurveda.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Cultural Characteristics.
Internationality.
Manners and customs.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Medicine, East Asian Traditional.
Social sciences.
Sociology, other.
Sociology.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Traditional medicine.
Volksgeneeskunde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205251
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9780812205251
Index Number: GN625
CLC: R793
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Culture and Medicine --
Chapter 2. yurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge /
Chapter 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine /
Chapter 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India /
Chapter 5. Health and Medicine in British India and Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study /
Chapter 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/ AIDS /
Chapter 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China /
Chapter 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New Age Discourses on Women's Health /
Chapter 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era /
Notes --
References --
CONTRIBUTORS --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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