Strategies of Resort to Curers in South India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Tables IX
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I. The Great Traditions of Hindu, Arabic, and Chinese Medicine
8. The Practice of Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India 18
9. Secular and Religious Features of Medieval Arabic Medicine 44
10. The Intellectual and Social Impulses Behind the Evolution of Traditional Chinese Medicine 63
11. PART II. The Structure and Character of Cosmopolitan Medicine
12. The Modern Medical System: the Soviet Variant 82
13. The Sociology of Modern Medical Research 102
14. PART III. The Adaptive Significance of Medical Traditions
15. Disease, Morbidity, and Mortality in China, India, and the Arab World 120
16. Traditional Asian Medicine and Cosmopolitan Medicine as Adaptive Systems 133
17. The Cultural and Interpersonal Context of Everyday Health and Illness in Japan and America 159
18. PART IV. The Culture of Plural Medical Systems
19. Strategies of Resort to Curers in South India 184
20. The Impact of Ayurvedic Ideas on the Culture and the Individual in Sri Lanka 201
21. The Social Organization of Indigenous and Modern Medical Practices in Southwest Sumatra 227
22. Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong 243
23. PART V. The Ecology of Indigenous and Cosmopolitan Medical Practice
24. Systems and the Medical Practitioners of a Tamil Town 272
25. The Place of Indigenous Medical Practitioners in the Modernization of Health Services 285
26. The Social Organization and Ecology of Medical Practice in Taiwan 300
27. PART VI. Medical Revivalism
28. Chinese Traditional Medicine in Japan 322
29. The Ideology of Medical Revivalism in Modern China 341
30. The Ambiguities of Medical Revivalism in Modern India 356
31. Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Bengal 368
32. PART VII. Perspectives
33. World Views and Asian Medical Systems: Some Suggestions for Further Study 383
34. INDEX 405