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Asian Medicine and Globalization /

As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east in the form of plastic surgery, these systems of meaning become inextricably interrelated. The essays in this volume consider the larger implic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Alter, Joseph S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : The politics of culture and medicine -- Āyurvedic acupuncture--transnational nationalism : ambivalence about the origin and authenticity of medical knowledge / Joseph S. Alter -- Deviant airs in "traditional" Chinese medicine / Vivienne Lo and Sylvia Schroer -- Reinventing traditional medicine : method, institutional change, and the manufacture of drugs and medication in late colonial India / S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina -- Health and medicine in British India and the Dutch Indies : a comparative study / Deepak Kumar -- Nationalism, transnationalism, and the politics of "traditional" Indian medicine for HIV/AIDS / Cecilia Van Hollen -- Mapping science and nation in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Sanskrit gynecologies in postmodernity : the commodization of Indian medicine in alternative medical and new-age discourses on women's health / Martha Ann Selby -- China reconstructs : cosmetic surgery and nationalism in the reform era / Susan Brownell. 
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