Margaret M. Lock 
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan [EPUB ebook] 
Varieties of Medical Experience

‘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

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Preface to the Paperback Edition

List of Illustrations

List of 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: Kanpo

7. A Kanpo-Clinic: The Patients

8. A Kanpo 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

Bibliography

Index

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Margaret Lock is Professor of Medical Anthopology at Mc Gill University and author of Twice Dead (California, 2002), among other titles. In 2003, she was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, of the American Anthropology Association.