East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan : Varieties of Medical Experience (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No. 4)
By Margaret M. Lock.
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0520052315, 9780520052314