Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, Shamanism, and science in Asian societies /
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Westport, CT :
Bergin & Garvey,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Healing powers in contemporary Asia / Linda H. Connor
- Healing in the modern state: Korea, Malaysia, and India. The cultural politics of "superstition" in the Korean Shaman world: modernity constructs its other / Laurel Kendall
- Tradition and change in Malay healing / Carol Laderman
- Modernity and the midwife: contestations over a subaltern figure, South India / Kalpana Ram
- The political ecology of health in India: indigestion as sign and symptom of defective modernization / Mark Nichter
- Healing on the margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. Engaging the spirits of modernity: the Temiars / Marina Roseman
- Presence, efficacy, and politics in healing among the Iban of Sarawak / Amanda Harris
- Sorcery and science as competing models of explanation in a Sasak village / Cynthia L. Hunter
- Medicines and modernities in socialist China: medical pluralism, the state, and Naxi identities in the Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White
- Healing, power, and identity in Tibetan societies. Tibetan medicine at the crossroads: radical modernity and the social organization of traditional medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China / Craig R. Janes
- Particularizing modernity: Tibetan medical theorizing of women's health in Lhasa, Tibet / Vincanne Adams
- Tibetan medicine in contemporary India: theory and practice / Geoffrey Samuel
- Glossary of Tibetan terms.