Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems, Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. 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. Whether discussing Japanese anatomy texts, Islamic humoralism, Ayurvedic clinical practice, or a variety of other subjects, the authors offer an exciting range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
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Charles Leslie is Professor of Anthropology and the Humanities at the Center for Science and Culture, University of Delaware. Allan Young is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University.
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It has long been a commonplace of Japanese historiography that the publication of Sugita Gempaku's (1733-1817) Kaitai Shinsho (1774) was a major turning point in Japanese cultural history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patron bhuta, calming stomach powder, siddha poetry, oily enemas, medical revivalism, cosmopolitan medicine, bhuta spirits, humoral qualities, humoral traditions, siddha yogis, medical pluralism, dead foetus, innate heat, ritual curing, forest disease, menopausal syndrome, indigenous medicine, anatomical charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of California Press, Los Angeles, Shiv Sharma, New York, Kaitai Shinsho, Srinivasa Murti, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Tamil Nadu, Charles Leslie, Cambridge University Press, Mainichi Shinbun, Sugita Gempaku, Yang Kung, Harvard University Press, South India, South Kanara, Orang Ash, Belthangady Taluk, Mark Nichter, Pandit Ganapathy, University of Chicago, Minister of Health, New Delhi, South Kanarese New!
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It has long been a commonplace of Japanese historiography that the publication of Sugita Gempaku's (1733-1817) Kaitai Shinsho (1774) was a major turning point in Japanese cultural history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patron bhuta, calming stomach powder, siddha poetry, oily enemas, medical revivalism, cosmopolitan medicine, bhuta spirits, humoral qualities, humoral traditions, siddha yogis, medical pluralism, dead foetus, innate heat, ritual curing, forest disease, menopausal syndrome, indigenous medicine, anatomical charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of California Press, Los Angeles, Shiv Sharma, New York, Kaitai Shinsho, Srinivasa Murti, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Tamil Nadu, Charles Leslie, Cambridge University Press, Mainichi Shinbun, Sugita Gempaku, Yang Kung, Harvard University Press, South India, South Kanara, Orang Ash, Belthangady Taluk, Mark Nichter, Pandit Ganapathy, University of Chicago, Minister of Health, New Delhi, South Kanarese New!
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- Asian Medical Systems by Charles Leslie on 9 pages
- Chinese Medicine by Paul U. Unschuld on 6 pages
- The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine (Phainon xiboprints: reprints) by Manfred Porkert on 4 pages
- Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Systems of Correspondence (Asian Science Series: No. 3) by Manfred Porkert on 4 pages
- Chinese Medicine by Manfred Porkert on 4 pages
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- New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theory and Practice in Medicalanthropology) by Margaret Lock on 11 pages
- New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theory and Practice in Medicalanthropology) by Margaret Lock on 10 pages
- Asian Medicine and Globalization (Encounters with Asia) by Joseph S. Alter on 5 pages
- Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science) by Hugh Shapiro on 4 pages
- Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions by Don Bates on 4 pages
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