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Author:   Michael Stanley-Baker
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.628kg
ISBN:  

9781526160010

ISBN 10:   1526160013
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   14 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Dagmar Schäfer Acknowledgements Introduction Michael Stanley-Baker Part I East Asia 1 Religion and health care in middle-period China Nathan Sivin 2 Religion and medicine in pre-modern Japan Katja Triplett 3 Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China Elena Valussi Part II South Asia 4 Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Ramaya?a and the politics of an epic plant Anthony Cerulli 5 From ‘medical men’ to ‘local health traditions’: the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India Helen Lambert 6 Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal Projit Bihari Mukharji Part III Himalayas, Southeast Asia 7 Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing Geoffrey Samuel 8 Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: Encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society Constantin Canavas 9 Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar Céline Coderey Index -- .

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Michael Stanley-Baker is an Assistant Professor in History at the Lee Kong-Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University.

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