Asian Medicine and Globalization

醫療系統在特定的文化背景下發揮作用。人們常說中國，日本，印度和其他民族國家的醫學。然而，幾乎所有形式化的醫療系統都聲稱具有普遍的適用性，因此，它們已準備好跨越它們的文化邊界。

在理論和實踐中，區域醫療系統被概念化為“民族主義”或固有跨國的方式存在著嚴重的緊張。本卷涉及民族主義與跨國主義之間摩擦所產生的問題，當時全球化使文化、政治和經濟有限的概念大為複雜化。提供者提供了一系列觀點，解決了以下問題：國家如何關注“傳統”醫學的現代化？全球科學霸權如何使民族主義者對替代醫學的闡述成為可能呢？全球科學話語和“新時代”靈性如何促進“亞洲”醫學的跨國化？隨著越來越多的亞洲醫療實踐通過瑜伽和草藥學的普及跨越西方文化的邊界，並且隨著西方醫學的發現，這些意義系統變得不可分割地相互關聯。

這些文章考慮了文化之間傳播的更大影響。

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.

   Joseph S. Alter (Autor)

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press 

ISBN:    978-0812238662 

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