Situating religion and medicine in Asia : methodological insights and innovations / edited by Michael Stanley-Baker.
"This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion'...
| Uniform Title: | Social histories of medicine.
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Social histories of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 390 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Foreword / Dagmar Schäfer ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction / Michael Stanley-Baker ; Religion and health care in middle-period China / Nathan Sivin ; Religion and medicine in pre-modern Japan / Katja Triplett ; Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China / Elena Valussi ; Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Ramayana and the politics of an epic plant / Anthony Cerulli ; From 'medical men' to 'local health traditions': the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India / Helen Lambert ; Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal / Projit Bihari Mukharji ; Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing / Geoffrey Samuel ; Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: Encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society / Constantin Canavas ; Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar / Céline Coderey