Asian Medicine and Globalization (Encounters with Asia)

by JosephS.Alter (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $63.65

  As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east in the form of plastic surgery, these systems of meaning become inextricably interrelated. The essays in this volume consider the larger implications of transmissions between cultures.