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Asian medical systems : a comparative study / edited by Charles Leslie.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976.Description: xiv, 419 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0520035119
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • WA 530 JA1 A832 1976
Contents:
Contents Introduction Part I The Great Traditions of Hindu, Arabic and Chinese Medicine The Practice of medicine in Ancient and Medieval India Secular and Religious Features of medieval Arabic medicine The Intellectual and Social Impulses behind the Evolution of traditional Chinese medicine Part II. The Structure and Character of Cosmopolitan medicine The modern medical system : The Soviet Variant The Sociology of modern medical research Part III. The Adaptive Significance of medical traditions Disease, Morbidity and mortality in China, India and the Arab World Traditional Asian Medicine and cosmopolitan medicine as Adaptive Systems The Cultural and Interpersonal context of Everyday Health and Illness in Japan and America Part IV. The Culture of Plural Medical Systems Strategies of Resort to curers in South India The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka The Social Organization of Indigenous and modern medical practices in Southwest Sumatra Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong Part V. The Ecology of Indigenous and Cosmopolitan medical Practice Systems and the medical practitioners in the modernization of health services The Social Organization and Ecology of medical practice in Taiwan Part VI. Medical Revivalism Chinese Traditional Medicine in Japan The Ideology of medical revivalism in modern China The Ambiguities of medical revivalism in modern India Indigenous medicine in Ninetenth-and Twentieth-Century Bengal Part VII. Perspectives World-views and Asian Medical Systems: Some Suggestions for Further Study
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents
Introduction
Part I The Great Traditions of Hindu, Arabic and Chinese Medicine
The Practice of medicine in Ancient and Medieval India
Secular and Religious Features of medieval Arabic medicine
The Intellectual and Social Impulses behind the Evolution of traditional Chinese medicine

Part II. The Structure and Character of Cosmopolitan medicine
The modern medical system : The Soviet Variant
The Sociology of modern medical research

Part III. The Adaptive Significance of medical traditions
Disease, Morbidity and mortality in China, India and the Arab World
Traditional Asian Medicine and cosmopolitan medicine as Adaptive Systems
The Cultural and Interpersonal context of Everyday Health and Illness in Japan and America

Part IV. The Culture of Plural Medical Systems
Strategies of Resort to curers in South India
The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka
The Social Organization of Indigenous and modern medical practices in Southwest Sumatra
Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong

Part V. The Ecology of Indigenous and Cosmopolitan medical Practice
Systems and the medical practitioners in the modernization of health services
The Social Organization and Ecology of medical practice in Taiwan

Part VI. Medical Revivalism
Chinese Traditional Medicine in Japan
The Ideology of medical revivalism in modern China
The Ambiguities of medical revivalism in modern India
Indigenous medicine in Ninetenth-and Twentieth-Century Bengal

Part VII. Perspectives
World-views and Asian Medical Systems: Some Suggestions for Further Study

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