Asian Medical Industries
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Asian Medical Industries

Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals

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eBook - ePub

Asian Medical Industries

Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals

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About This Book

This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel perspective on traditional Asian medicines.

Complementing and updating existing work in this field, the book provides a critical and comparative analytic framework for understanding Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa, and Japanese Kampo in the 21st century. No longer subaltern health resources or conservative systems of traditional knowledge, these medicines have become an integral part of modern Asia as innovative, lucrative industries. Ten original case studies employ insights from anthropology, history, geography, pharmaceutical sciences, botany, and economics to trace the transformation of Asian medical traditions into rapidly growing and dynamic pharmaceutical industries. Collectively, these contributions identify this as a major phenomenon impacting Asian and global healthcare, economics, cultural politics, and environments. The book suggests that we can learn more about Asian medicines today by approaching them as industries rather than as cultural or epistemic systems.

Asian Medical Industries is a highly original resource for students and scholars across a range of academic fields such as anthropology, history, and Asian studies, as well as medical practitioners, health sector actors, and policymakers.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000523263
Edition
1
Topic
Medicina
Subtopic
Teoria, pratica e riferimenti medici

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Introduction: Asian medical industries
  10. PART I East Asian medical industries
  11. PART II South Asian medical industries
  12. PART III Sowa Rigpa industries
  13. Index