Situating religion and medicine in Asia (eBook)

Methodological insights and innovations

Michael Stanley-Baker (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
416 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6000-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Social Histories of Medicine
• Zusatzinfo: 1 black & white illustration, 1 map
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Asian medicine • Asian religions • Ayurveda • Medical Anthropology • Religion and Medicine • Science and religion • situating knowledge • social construction of medicine • Traditional medicine
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-6000-5 / 1526160005
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6000-3 / 9781526160003