Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I CHINESE MEDICINE, COSMOPOLITAN MEDICINE, AND OTHER TRADITIONS IN EAST ASIA
6. 1. Between Mind and Eye: Japanese Anatomy in the Eighteenth Century 21
7. 2. Epistemologica! Issues and Changing Legitimation: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Twentieth Century 44
8. 3. Time and Text: Approaching Chinese Medical Practice through Analysis of a Published Case 62
9. 4. Winds, Waters, Seeds, and Souls: Folk Concepts of Physiology and Etiology in Chinese Geomancy 74
10. 5. The Fragile Japanese Family: Narratives about Individualism and the Postmodern State 98
11. PART II AYURVEDA, COSMOPOLITAN MEDICINE, AND OTHER TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA
12. 6. Death and Nurturance in Indian Systems of Healing 129
13. 7. Science, Experimentation, and Clinical Practice in Ayurveda 160
14. 8. Interpretations of Illness: Syncretism in Modern Ayurveda 177
15. 9. Gentle Purge: The Flower Power of Ayurveda 209
16. 10. Of Ticks, Kings, Spirits, and the Promise of Vaccines 224
17. PART III ISLAMIC HUMORAL TRADITIONS
18. 11. The Comparative Study of Greco-Islamic Medicine: The Integration of Medical Knowledge into Local Symbolic Contexts 257
19. 12. A Welcoming Soil: Islamic Humoralism on the Malay Peninsula 272
20. CONTRIBUTORS 289
21. INDEX 291