TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leslie,Charles M.
TI  - Asian medical systems: a comparative study 
SN  - 0520035119
U1  - WA 530 JA1 A832 1976 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Medicine, Oriental
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Asia
KW  - Medical anthropology
N1  - 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
ER  -