قدرت‌های درمانی و مدرنیته: پزشکی سنتی، شمن‌گرایی و علم در جوامع آسیایی

What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in Asian societies see the various healing options now open to them? The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant form of medicine supported by national governments, and is emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study, being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than textual tradition. Annotation Explores The Effects Of Modernity On Traditional Healing Systems Of Asia And Interactions Between Traditional And Western Medicine. Annotation Connor And Samuel Explore The Present State Of A Range Of Healing Traditions In Their Asian Locales. The Peoples Examined Include Relatively Remote Populations Such As The Iban Of Sarawak, The Temiar Of Malaysia, And The Sasak Of Lomboko, As Well As Rural South Indians And Malays, The People Of South Korea's Modern Industrial Cities, And Tibetans Both In Chinese-controlled Tibet And In The Refugee Settlements Of North India. Healing Powers In Contemporary Asia / Linda H. Connor -- Healing In The Modern State: Korea, Malaysia, And India. The Cultural Politics Of Superstition In The Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other / Laurel Kendall -- Tradition And Change In Malay Healing / Carol Laderman -- Modernity And The Midwife: Contestations Over A Subaltern Figure, South India / Kalpana Ram -- The Political Ecology Of Health In India: Indigestion As Sign And Symptom Of Defective Modernization / Mark Nichter -- Healing On The Margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, And China. Engaging The Spirits Of Modernity: The Temiars / Marina Roseman -- Presence, Efficacy, And Politics In Healing Among The Iban Of Sarawak / Amanda Harris -- Sorcery And Science As Competing Models Of Explanation In A Sasak Village / Cynthia L. Hunter -- Medicines And Modernities In Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, The State, And Naxi Identities In The Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White -- Healing, Power, And Identity In Tibetan Societies. Tibetan Medicine At The Crossroads: Radical Modernity And The Social Organization Of Traditional Medicine In The Tibet Autonomous Region, China / Craig R. Janes -- Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing Of Women's Health In Lhasa, Tibet / Vincanne Adams -- Tibetan Medicine In Contemporary India: Theory And Practice / Geoffrey Samuel -- Glossary Of Tibetan Terms. Edited By Linda H. Connor And Geoffrey Samuel. Based On Papers Presented At An International Research Workshop At The University Of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, In Dec. 1996. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. When we consider "modernity" not as an inevitable and unidirectional process, but rather, in Baudrillard's (1987) sense, as something like a viral ideology that has infected most of the globe but mutated, waxed, and sometimes waned in local settings (Rofel 1992), then new questions can be asked.