Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia

Foreword by Dagmar Schaefer
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
Celine Coderey

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