1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787526003321

Titolo

Asian medicine and globalization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph S. Alter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8122-0525-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Encounters with Asia

Altri autori (Persone)

AlterJoseph S

Disciplina

306.4/61/095

Soggetti

Traditional medicine - Asia

Medicine, Ayurvedic - Asia

Asia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Culture and Medicine -- Chapter 2. Āyurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge / Alter, Joseph S. -- Chapter 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine / Lo, Vivienne / Schroer, Sylvia -- Chapter 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India / Habib, S. Irfan / Raina, Dhruv -- Chapter 5. Health and Medicine in British India and Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study / Kumar, Deepak -- Chapter 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/ AIDS / Hollen, Cecilia Van -- Chapter 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China / Chen, Nancy N. -- Chapter 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New Age Discourses on Women's Health / Selby, Martha Ann -- Chapter 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era / Brownell, Susan -- Notes -- References -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability



and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a critical tension, in theory and practice, in the ways regional medical systems are conceptualized as "nationalistic" or inherently transnational. This volume is concerned with questions and problems created by the friction between nationalism and transnationalism at a time when globalization has greatly complicated the notion of cultural, political, and economic boundedness. Offering a range of perspectives, the contributors address questions such as: How do states concern themselves with the modernization of "traditional" medicine? How does the global hegemony of science enable the nationalist articulation of alternative medicine? How do global discourses of science and "new age" spirituality facilitate the transnationalization of "Asian" medicine? As more and more Asian medical practices cross boundaries into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east, these systems of meaning become inextricably interrelated. These essays consider the larger implications of transmissions between cultures.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809861903321

Autore

Ng Siew Chin

Titolo

Clinical challenges & images in gastroenterology : a diagnostic guide / / Siew C. Ng, Heyson C.H. Chan, Rashid N.S. Lui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harley, Shrewsbury, England : , : tfm Publishing Limited, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-910079-04-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.33

Soggetti

Gastroenterology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005588430403321

Titolo

L'espressionismo : pittura scultura architettura : mostra in Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, maggio-giugno 1964

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Vallecchi Editore, stampa 1964

Descrizione fisica

XII, 204 p., 263 p. di tav. ; 26 cm

Disciplina

709.04042

Locazione

FLFBC

DARST

Collocazione

709.04 MOSTRE FIRENZE 1964

14.122

DE FUSCO 604

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sul frontespizio: XXVII Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliografia: p. 11-23