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Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
| Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 615.5/095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorLinda <1950->
SamuelGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Healing - Asia
Social medicine - Asia Traditional medicine - Asia Shamanism - Asia |
| ISBN |
979-84-00-66219-5
0-313-00276-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Tibetan Spelling""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia""; ""HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA""; ""2 The Cultural Politics of “Superstition� in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other""; ""3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing""; ""4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India""; ""5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization""
""HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA""""6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars""; ""7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak""; ""8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village""; ""9 Medicines andModernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin""; ""HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES""; ""10 Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China"" ""11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizingof Women�s Health in Lhasa, Tibet""""12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice""; ""Glossary of Tibetan Terms""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809341303321 |
| Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
| Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, CT, : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 615.5/095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorLinda <1950->
SamuelGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Healing - Asia
Social medicine - Asia Traditional medicine - Asia Shamanism - Asia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-313-00276-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Tibetan Spelling""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia""; ""HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA""; ""2 The Cultural Politics of “Superstition� in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other""; ""3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing""; ""4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India""; ""5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization""
""HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA""""6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars""; ""7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak""; ""8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village""; ""9 Medicines andModernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin""; ""HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES""; ""10 Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China"" ""11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizingof Women�s Health in Lhasa, Tibet""""12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice""; ""Glossary of Tibetan Terms""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456150203321 |
| Westport, CT, : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
| Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, CT, : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 615.5/095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorLinda <1950->
SamuelGeoffrey |
| Soggetto topico |
Healing - Asia
Social medicine - Asia Traditional medicine - Asia Shamanism - Asia |
| ISBN | 0-313-00276-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Tibetan Spelling""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia""; ""HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA""; ""2 The Cultural Politics of “Superstition� in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other""; ""3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing""; ""4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India""; ""5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization""
""HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA""""6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars""; ""7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak""; ""8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village""; ""9 Medicines andModernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin""; ""HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES""; ""10 Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China"" ""11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizingof Women�s Health in Lhasa, Tibet""""12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice""; ""Glossary of Tibetan Terms""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780166603321 |
| Westport, CT, : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia / / Shirley Sun
| Socio-economics of personalized medicine in Asia / / Shirley Sun |
| Autore | Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1095 |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness |
| Soggetto topico |
Precision medicine - Social aspects - Asia
Precision medicine - Economic aspects - Asia Social medicine - Asia Medical economics - Asia |
| ISBN |
1-134-98919-9
1-315-53717-6 1-134-98912-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Personalized medicine and population-based research and development; What is a population? Race and genetics in North America; Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, and pharmacoethnicity; Why Asia?; Time, space, and the emergent other; Genomics in Asia and the unfolding dynamics of othering; Current research infrastructure and development concerning personalized medicine in Asia; Existing social-science studies of science and medicine performed in Asia; The illuminating question could be, when are you from?
What is at stake when populations are ethnically or racially labeled?Chapter outline; 2 Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context: Asianism, nationalism, and the racialization of ethnicity; Introduction; The fundamental question of, when are you from?; Once upon a time: the unfolding character of the "Japanese" category; Effects of Japanese colonialism and regional integration on the notion of "Japanese"; Resisting being "othered": scientists in Asia define "Asian" genome diversity Ethnicity as a proxy for genetic diversity and the molecularization of ethnicities in AsiaConclusion; 3 Capitalizing on being "othered": precision medicine and race in the context of a globalized pharmaceutical industry; Introduction; Saving IRESSA; The larger significance of the story of IRESSA; Racializing clinical trials as a routine phenomenon; Local transformations; Pharmacogenomics, race, and post-marketing clinical trials; Conclusion; 4 Managing otherness: genomics and public health policy in Singapore; Introduction; Population aggregate data, ethnicity, and post-market drug vigilance Irinotecan and UGT1A1 genotypingCarbamazepine and HLA-B*1502 genotyping; Analysis of the prevailing practices noted above; The historical emergence of "Malay" as a group during the precolonial era; "Malayness" during the colonial era; "Malayness" in the Malay Peninsula in the postcolonial era; The case of the Malay in Singapore; Conclusion; 5 Cancer genomics in clinics; Introduction; Using ethnicity or race as a basis of clinical decision-making; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug efficacy; Personalized medicine in clinical practice: drug toxicities Personalized medicine in clinical practice: preventive medicineConclusion; 6 Socio-economic factors and ethical dilemmas in personalized medicine provision; Introduction; Genome-based personalized medicine is effective but not curative; moreover, it can be prohibitively expensive; Should the cost of a cancer drug be part of the treatment decisions?; Who should be expected to interpret genetic tests when cancer is a "context-dependent manifestation"?; Privacy concerns and the potential for genetic discrimination at the level of the individual and the group Should genome-based pharmaceuticals be the primary approach to treating cancer? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831882803321 |
Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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