Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
- ISBN-10
- 0897897153
- ISBN-13
- 9780897897150
- Category
- Healing
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Authors
- Linda Connor, Geoffrey Samuel
Description
Annotation Explores the effects of modernity on traditional healing systems of Asia and interactions between traditional and "Western" medicine.
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