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"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of an important dimension of life in Japan. . . In well-written chapters dealing with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and the human body, detailed description of kanpo clinics, herbal pharmacies, acupuncture and moxibustion clinics, shiatsu and anma clinics, East Asian medical schools as well as the interactions between various providers and patients (customers), Lock develops the cultural thesis ... In the process, she provides information on things most visitors to Japan have seen, heard, felt, and smelled but rarely understood." -Journal of Asian Studies "Breaks important new ground . . Lock discusses concrete medical practice and its cultural significance in general. ... rich in comparisons, engrossing to read, and analytically penetrating .... an important and absorbing book. It is an engaging account of how at least some Japanese people respond to universal problems. Most readers will obtain from it their first clear impression of what East Asian medicine actually is and does." -Journal of Japanese Studies "Of considerable significance for comparative cross-cultural studies of medicine, of which this is the best account for a Japanese setting that we now possess." --Monumenta Nipponica "Both Japan specialists and medical anthropologists will be stimulated, challenged, and engaged by this book.' --Medical Anthropology Newsletter
"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sou
"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sou
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- PREFACE to the Paperback edition
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- 1 Introduction: The Pendulum Swings to Holism
- PART ONE East Asian Medicine: Its Philosophical Foundations and Historical Development
- 2 Early Japanese Medical Beliefs and Practices
- 3 Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations of East Asian Medicine
- 4 History of East Asian Medicine in Japan
- PART TWO Attitudes toward the Body in Health and Sickness
- 5 Early Socialization
- 6 The Interrelationship of Socialization Practices and Medical Beliefs
- PART THREE The East Asian Medical System in Urban Japan: Kanpō
- 7 A Kanpō Clinic: The Patients
- 8 A Kanpō Clinic: The Doctors
- 9 Herbal Pharmacies
- PART FOUR The East Asian Medical System in Urban Japan: Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Massage
- 10 Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinics: The Setting and the Patients
- 11 Massage: Shiatsu and Amma
- 12 East Asian Medical Schools
- 13 Philosophy and Attitudes of Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Massage Specialists
- 14 Holism and East Asian Therapy
- PART FIVE The Cosmopolitan Medical System
- 15 Doctor and Patient Relationships in Cosmopolitan Medicine
- 16 Conclusions
- GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE TERMS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX