Asian Medical Industries (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals
Redaktion: Kloos, Stephan; Blaikie, Calum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel perspective on traditional Asian medicines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000523263
• Artikelnr.: 63521117

Autorenporträt

Stephan Kloos is Acting Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research on the development of Sowa Rigpa has been published in numerous articles and the co-edited volume Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India (Pordié & Kloos). Calum Blaikie is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Focusing on pharmaceutical, institutional, and economic dimensions of Sowa Rigpa in the Himalayas, his research has been published in numerous leading academic journals and edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Asian Medical Industries

Part 1: East Asian Medical Industries 1. Discovering New Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai Pharmaceuticals 2. Cultivation and Paternalism in the Service of the Market: Medical Industry and Ethnicity in Southwest China 3. The Development of the Kampo Medicines Industry: 'Good Practices' and Health Policy-Making in Japan 4. The Pharmaceutical Industry of Toyama Prefecture, Japan: Haichi Household Medicines, Intersectoral Collaboration and Industrial Clustering Part 2: South Asian Medical Industries 5. Globalizing Ayurveda, Branding India: Implications for the Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Industry 6. Industry Dynamics and Clustering in Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Production in South India: The Case of CARe Keralam 7. Untangling the Web of Raw Material Supply for the Ayurvedic Industry: The Complex Geography of Plant Circulations Part 3: Sowa Rigpa Industries 8. "Sourcery": Losing Track of Tibetan Medicinal Plants between Commerce and Conservation in Northern India 9. Making Tibetan Medicine in Nepal: Industrial Aspirations, Cooperative Relations, and Precarious Production 10. The Emergence of the Traditional Mongolian Medicine Industry: Communism, Continuity and Reassemblage

Conclusion: Assembling Asian Pharmaceuticals