Asian medical systems : a comparative study / edited by Charles Leslie.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976.Description: xiv, 419 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0520035119
- WA 530 JA1 A832 1976
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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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