TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leslie,Charles
AU  - Young,Allan
ED  - American Anthropological Association.
TI  - Paths to Asian medical knowledge
T2  - Comparative studies of health systems and medical care
SN  - 9780520910935
AV  - R581 .P38 1992eb
U1  - 610/.95 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Medicine, Oriental
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Medicine, Ayurvedic
KW  - Medicine, East Asian Traditional
KW  - M�edecine orientale
KW  - M�edecine
KW  - Asie
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Kulturanthropologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Medizin
KW  - Kongress
KW  - Medische antropologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geneeskunde
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Health & Biological Sciences
KW  - Ayurveda
KW  - Congr�es
KW  - ram
KW  - M�edecine arabe
KW  - M�edecine chinoise
KW  - Anthropologie m�edicale
KW  - Asia
KW  - Asien
KW  - Congress
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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