Asian Medicine And Globalization (Encounters With Asia)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780812238662
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; Globalization; Social & cultural anthropology; Medicine, Ayurvedic; Diet / Health / Fitness; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Social life and customs; Alternative Therapies; ASIA; Traditional medicine
First sentence: The chapters in this volume deal with the ways in which bodies of knowledge are manipulated to produce coherence and health, broadly defined.