Asian Medicine and Globalization / / ed. by Joseph S. Alter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Alter, Joseph S.,; Brownell, Susan,; Chen, Nancy N.,; Habib, S. Irfan,; Hollen, Cecilia Van,; Kumar, Deepak,; Lo, Vivienne,; Raina, Dhruv,; Schroer, Sylvia,; Selby, Martha Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Alter, Joseph S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters with Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Culture and Medicine
• Chapter 2. Āyurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge
• Chapter 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine
• Chapter 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India
• Chapter 5. Health and Medicine in British India and Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study
• Chapter 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/ AIDS
• Chapter 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China
• Chapter 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New Age Discourses on Women's Health
• Chapter 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era
• Notes
• References
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Index
• Acknowledgments