What is the current state of traditional healing practices in
contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in
the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How
are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics
of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of
commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in
Asian societies see the various healing options now open to
them?
The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the
clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and
biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant
form of medicine supported by national governments, and is
emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the
medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral
systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well
known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their
increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their
healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study,
being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than
textual tradition.
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