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Paths to Asian medical knowledge / edited by Charles Leslie and Allan Young.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative studies of health systems and medical carePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520910935
  • 0520910931
  • 0520073185
  • 9780520073180
  • 0585131015
  • 9780585131016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paths to Asian medical knowledge.DDC classification:
  • 610/.95 20
LOC classification:
  • R581 .P38 1992eb
NLM classification:
  • WB 50
Other classification:
  • 44.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Between mind and eye: Japanese anatomy in the eighteenth century / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Epistemological issues and changing legitimation: traditional Chinese medicine in the twentieth century / Paul U. Unschuld -- Time and text: approaching Chinese medical practice through analysis of a published case / Judith Farquhar -- Winds, waters, seeds, and souls: folk concepts of physiology and etiology in Chinese geomancy / Gary Seaman -- The fragile Japnese family: narratives about individualism and the postmodern state / Margaret Lock -- Death and nurturance in Indian systems of healing / Margaret Trawick.
Science, experimentation, and clinical practice in Ayurveda / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Interpretations of illness: syncretism in modern Ayurveda / Charles Leslie -- Gentle purge: the flower power of Ayurveda / Francis Zimmermann -- Of ticks, kings, spirits, and the promise of vaccines / Mark Nichter -- The comparative study of Greco-Islamic medicine: the integration of medical knowledge into local symbolic contexts / Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- A welcoming soil: Islamic humoralism on the Malay peninsula / Carol Laderman.
Summary: These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
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Many chapters presented as papers at the 84th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.

Between mind and eye: Japanese anatomy in the eighteenth century / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Epistemological issues and changing legitimation: traditional Chinese medicine in the twentieth century / Paul U. Unschuld -- Time and text: approaching Chinese medical practice through analysis of a published case / Judith Farquhar -- Winds, waters, seeds, and souls: folk concepts of physiology and etiology in Chinese geomancy / Gary Seaman -- The fragile Japnese family: narratives about individualism and the postmodern state / Margaret Lock -- Death and nurturance in Indian systems of healing / Margaret Trawick.

Science, experimentation, and clinical practice in Ayurveda / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Interpretations of illness: syncretism in modern Ayurveda / Charles Leslie -- Gentle purge: the flower power of Ayurveda / Francis Zimmermann -- Of ticks, kings, spirits, and the promise of vaccines / Mark Nichter -- The comparative study of Greco-Islamic medicine: the integration of medical knowledge into local symbolic contexts / Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- A welcoming soil: Islamic humoralism on the Malay peninsula / Carol Laderman.

English.

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