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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations Series Comparative studies of health systems and medical care Comparative studies of health systems and medical care. 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 Analysis Medicine Asia Notes Many chapters presented as papers at the 84th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1985 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Medicine, Oriental -- East Asia -- Congresses Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Congresses Medicine, Oriental. Medicine -- Asia Medicine, East Asian Traditional MEDICAL -- History. Medicine Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Oriental Kulturanthropologie Medizin Kongress Medische antropologie. Geneeskunde. Ayurveda -- Congrès. Médecine arabe -- Asie -- Congrès. Médecine chinoise -- Congrès. Anthropologie médicale -- Congrès. SUBJECT Asia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001208 Subject Asia East Asia Asien Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Leslie, Charles, 1923-2009 Young, Allan, 1938- American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting (84th : 1985 : Washington, D.C.) ISBN 9780520910935 0520910931 0520073185 9780520073180 0585131015 9780585131016

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