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’ and ‘medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?
Edited by:
Michael Stanley-Baker
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 628g
ISBN: 9781526160010
ISBN 10: 1526160013
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 21 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword by Dagmar Schäfer Acknowledgements Introduction Michael Stanley-Baker Part I East Asia 1 Religion and health care in middle-period China Nathan Sivin 2 Religion and medicine in pre-modern Japan Katja Triplett 3 Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China Elena Valussi Part II South Asia 4 Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Ramaya?a and the politics of an epic plant Anthony Cerulli 5 From ‘medical men’ to ‘local health traditions’: the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India Helen Lambert 6 Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal Projit Bihari Mukharji Part III Himalayas, Southeast Asia 7 Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing Geoffrey Samuel 8 Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: Encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society Constantin Canavas 9 Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar Céline Coderey Index -- .
Michael Stanley-Baker is an Assistant Professor in History at the Lee Kong-Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University -- .
