Asian Medical Systems

Published by University of California Press 1976

Asian Medical Systems

Edited by: Charles Leslie

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520322295

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. The Great Traditions of Hindu, Arabic, and Chinese Medicine
The Practice of Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India A. L. Basham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine J. Christoph Bürgel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
The Intellectual and Social Impulses Behind the Evolution of Traditional Chinese Medicine Manfred Porkert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
PART II. The Structure and Character of Cosmopolitan Medicine
The Modern Medical System: the Soviet Variant Mark G. Field Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
The Sociology of Modern Medical Research Renée C. Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
PART III. The Adaptive Significance of Medical Traditions
Disease, Morbidity, and Mortality in China, India, and the Arab World Ivan Polunin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Traditional Asian Medicine and Cosmopolitan Medicine as Adaptive Systems Frederick L. Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Cultural and Interpersonal Context of Everyday Health and Illness in Japan and America William Caudill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
PART IV. The Culture of Plural Medical Systems
Strategies of Resort to Curers in South India Alan R. Beals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka Gananath Obeyesekere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
The Social Organization of Indigenous and Modern Medical Practices in Southwest Sumatra M. A. JaspanJaspan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong Topley Marjorie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
PART V. The Ecology of Indigenous and Cosmopolitan Medical Practice
Systems and the Medical Practitioners of a Tamil Town Edward Montgomery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
The Place of Indigenous Medical Practitioners in the Modernization of Health Services Carl E. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
The Social Organization and Ecology of Medical Practice in Taiwan Paul U. Unschuld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
PART VI. Medical Revivalism
Chinese Traditional Medicine in Japan Yasuo Otsuka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
The Ideology of Medical Revivalism in Modern China Ralph C. Croizier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
The Ambiguities of Medical Revivalism in Modern India Charles Leslie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Bengal Brahmananda Gupta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
PART VII. Perspectives
World Views and Asian Medical Systems: Some Suggestions for Further Study W . T. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Copyright year: 1976
Edition: Reprint 2020
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 440
Keywords: India; China; Asia; medicine; Asian medicine; Traditional Chinese Medicine; complementary medicine

eBook

Published: September 23, 2020
ISBN: 9780520322295