Asian Medicine and Globalization

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 proble...