Acculturation And Domination In Traditional Asian Medical Systems
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Acculturation And Domination In Traditional Asian Medical Systems
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Author : Dorothea Sich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Acculturation And Domination In Traditional Asian Medical Systems written by Dorothea Sich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Acculturation categories.
Asian Medical Systems
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Author : Charles M. Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1998
Asian Medical Systems written by Charles M. Leslie and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medical categories.
Asian Medical Systems provide fascinating opportunities to observe directly practices that continue ancient scientific modes of thought, and to analyse the historical processes that meditate their relationship to modern science and technology. Three great traditions of medical science evolved during antiquity in the Chinese, Indian, and Mediterranean civilizations, all based on humoral conceptions of health and illness. Folk curers throughout the world continue to practice humoral medicine, but in Asia along educated physicians maintain its learned traditions. Thus, in these societies the great and little traditions of humoral medicine coexist with cosmopolitan medicine, which draws upon modern science and modes of professional organization. This volume has been designed to show how research on Asian medicine opens a new field of scholarship, the comparative study of medical systems. Such a book requires the skills of authors with many kinds of training, and those who have contributed essays to this volume are trained in history, sociology, anthropology, public health, pharmacology, epidemiology, cosmopolitan medicine, and philosophy.
Healing At The Periphery
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Author : Laurent Pordié
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Healing At The Periphery written by Laurent Pordié and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Social Science categories.
India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, Healing at the Periphery asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world. Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié
Proceedings Of The Tenth Seminar Of The Iats 2003 Volume 10 Soundings In Tibetan Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-10-15
Proceedings Of The Tenth Seminar Of The Iats 2003 Volume 10 Soundings In Tibetan Medicine written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-15 with History categories.
This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary Tibetan societies.
Soundings In Tibetan Medicine
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Author : International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Soundings In Tibetan Medicine written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary Tibetan societies.
Healing Powers And Modernity
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Author : Linda H. Connor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-02-28
Healing Powers And Modernity written by Linda H. Connor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-28 with Social Science categories.
What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in Asian societies see the various healing options now open to them? The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant form of medicine supported by national governments, and is emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study, being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than textual tradition.
Tibetan Medicine In The Contemporary World
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Author : Laurent Pordié
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Tibetan Medicine In The Contemporary World written by Laurent Pordié and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Medical categories.
The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this medical system. Using case studies that examine of the social, political and identity dynamics of Tibetan medicine in Nepal, India, the PRC, Mongolia, the UK and the US, the contributors to this book answer the following three, fundamental questions: What are the modalities and issues involved in the social and therapeutic transformations of Tibetan medicine? How are national policies and health reforms connected to the processes of contemporary redefinition of this medicine? How does Tibetan medicine fit into the present, globalized context of the medical world? Written by experts in the field from the US, France, Canada, China and the UK this book will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in contemporary medicine, Tibetan studies, health studies and the anthropology of Asia. 'Winner of the ICAS Colleagues Choice Award 2009"
Religion Health Suffering
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Author : Porter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Religion Health Suffering written by Porter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with History categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ensnared By Aids
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Author : David K. Beine
language : en
Publisher: SIL International
Release Date : 2016-11-16
Ensnared By Aids written by David K. Beine and has been published by SIL International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-16 with Social Science categories.
How people make sense of illness is, in part, culturally determined. Existing community beliefs and presuppositions are organized as cultural models, which “make meaning” of new situations such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These cultural constructions can also contribute to the spread of the epidemic. This volume examines the meaning and cultural contexts of HIV/AIDS in Nepal, where AIDS is relatively new and rapidly growing. -- David K. Beine
Medicine Between Science And Religion
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Author : Vincanne Adams
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Medicine Between Science And Religion written by Vincanne Adams and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Social Science categories.
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.