Asian Medical Systems
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Asian Medical Systems

A Comparative Study

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Asian Medical Systems

A Comparative Study

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 1
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. The Practice of Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India
  10. Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine
  11. The Intellectual and Social Impulses Behind the Evolution of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  12. The Modern Medical System the Soviet Variant
  13. The Sociology of Modern Medical Research
  14. Disease, Morbidity, and Mortality in China, India, and the Arab World
  15. Traditional Asian Medicine and Cosmopolitan Medicine as Adaptive Systems
  16. The Cultural and Interpersonal Context of Everyday Health and Illness in Japan and America
  17. Strategies of Resort to Curers in South India
  18. The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka1
  19. The Social Organization of Indigenous and Modern Medical Practices in Southwest Sumatra
  20. Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong
  21. Systems and the Medical Practitioners of a Tamil Town
  22. The Place of Indigenous Medical Practitioners in the Modernization of Health Services
  23. The Social Organization and Ecology of Medical Practice in Taiwan
  24. Chinese Traditional Medicine in Japan
  25. The Ideology of Medical Revivalism in Modern China
  26. The Ambiguities of Medical Revivalism in Modern India1
  27. Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Bengal
  28. World Views and Asian Medical Systems Some Suggestions for Further Study
  29. INDEX