Asian Medicine and Globalization

by Joseph S. Alter

Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a critical tension, in theory and practice, in the ways regional medical systems are conceptualized as "nationalistic" or inherently transnational. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238664
• ISBN13: 9780812238662
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"