Paths to Asian medical knowledge /
edited by Charles Leslie and Allan Young.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.
- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations
- Comparative studies of health systems and medical care .
- Comparative studies of health systems and medical care. .
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.
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.
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.