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Paths to Asian medical knowledge /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.