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Asian Medicine and Globalization
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Asian Medicine and Globalization
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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.
As more and more Asian medical practices cross boundaries into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east, these systems of meaning become inextricably interrelated. These essays consider the larger implications of transmissions between cultures.
| ISBN | 812238664 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812238662 |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Publication date | 29/04/2005 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Weight (grammes) | 440 |
| Published in | United States |
| Height (mm) | 229 |
| Width (mm) | 152 |
1. Introduction: the Politics of Culture and Medicine 2. Ayurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge -Joseph S. Alter 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine -Vivienne Lo and Sylvia Schroer 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India -S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina 5. Health and Medicine in British India and the Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study -Deepak Kumar 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/AIDS -Cecilia Van Hollen 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China -Nancy N. Chen 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New-age Discourses on Women's Health -Marta Ann Selby 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era -Susan Brownell






