Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative StudyCharles M. Leslie Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1998 - 419 pagina's Asian Medical Systems provide fascinating opportunities to observe directly practices that continue ancient scientific modes of thought, and to analyse the historical processes that meditate their relationship to modern science and technology. Three great traditions of medical science evolved during antiquity in the Chinese, Indian, and Mediterranean civilizations, all based on humoral conceptions of health and illness. Folk curers throughout the world continue to practice humoral medicine, but in Asia along educated physicians maintain its learned traditions. Thus, in these societies the great and little traditions of humoral medicine coexist with cosmopolitan medicine, which draws upon modern science and modes of professional organization. This volume has been designed to show how research on Asian medicine opens a new field of scholarship, the comparative study of medical systems. Such a book requires the skills of authors with many kinds of training, and those who have contributed essays to this volume are trained in history, sociology, anthropology, public health, pharmacology, epidemiology, cosmopolitan medicine, and philosophy. |
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IntroductionCHARLES LESLIE | 1 |
The Practice of Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India | 18 |
Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine | 44 |
The Intellectual and Social Impulses Behind the Evolution | 63 |
The Soviet VariantMARK G FIELD | 82 |
Total Labor Force and Health Workers USA and USSR 19301969 96 15 | 96 |
The Sociology of Modern Medical ResearchRENEE C Fox | 102 |
Disease Morbidity and Mortality in China India and the Arab | 120 |
Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong | 243 |
Systems and the Medical Practitioners of a Tamil Town | 272 |
The Place of Indigenous Medical Practitioners in the Modernization | 285 |
Beliefs About Causes of Cholera | 292 |
Beliefs About Causes of Diarrhea | 294 |
The Social Organization and Ecology of Medical Practice | 300 |
Resort to Western and Traditional Chinese Medical Systems | 312 |
Chinese Traditional Medicine in JapanYASUO OTSUKA | 322 |
Traditional Asian Medicine and Cosmopolitan Medicine as Adaptive | 133 |
The Cultural and Interpersonal Context of Everyday Health | 159 |
Strategies of Resort to Curers in South IndiaALAN R BEALS | 184 |
Rupees Spent on Medical Treatment of Critical Illness of Male | 193 |
The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual | 201 |
Five Diseases Which FinalYear Students in the College of Ayurveda | 218 |
The Social Organization of Indigenous and Modern Medical Practices | 227 |
Number of Practitioners of Some Traditional Therapeutic | 338 |
The Ideology of Medical Revivalism in Modern ChinaRAlph | 341 |
The Ambiguities of Medical Revivalism in Modern India | 356 |
Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Bengal | 368 |
Some Suggestions | 383 |
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