Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel.

Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.

x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.