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Translating ‘Asian’ modes of healing and biomedicine
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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:42 authored by Margaret Sleeboom-FaulknerMargaret Sleeboom-FaulknerThis review article discusses the ‘translation of Asian modes of healing and medicine’ in six recently published books by raising seven questions. They serve both to review the volumes and to ask how we have moved from understanding systems of healing in terms of tradition and modernity, science and nonscience, globalization and locality, innovation and cultural heritage, to translating them in terms of assemblages, products, modes of resistance, social (dis-)harmony, and ecological balance. The questions span subjects ranging from the meaning of ‘Asian’ in Asian modes of healing, the object of healing and classifications of systems of healing to their relation with ‘biomedicine,’ modernization and the state, the extents to which communities share healing tradition, and their existential meaning in context.
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Medical AnthropologyISSN
0145-9740Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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6Volume
34Page range
572-585Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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2015-12-08Usage metrics
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