Circulation and governance of Asian medicine
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Circulation and governance of Asian medicine
(Routledge contemporary Asia series)
Routledge, 2022, c2020
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published: 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.
Chapters analyze the process of industrialization and commercialization of Asian medicine and the ways in which the expansion of the market in Asian medicines has contributed to the inscription of products within a large system of governance, greatly dominated by global actors and the biomedical hegemony. At the same time, the contributors argue that local actors continue to play a major role in reshaping the regulations and their implementation, thus complexifying the trajectory of the remedies and their natures. Examining in particular the plurality of actors involved in governance and circulation, and the converging or conflicting logics actors follow in regard to negotiations and tensions that arise, the book brings a unique multi-layered contribution to the study of governance and circulation of Asian medicines, offering further proof of their fluidity and resilience.
Filling a significant gap in the market by addressing circulation and governance of Asian medicines in Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Singapore, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of Asian studies, Asian culture and society, global health, Asian medicine, and medical anthropology.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Governance and Circulation of Asian Medicines
- 1 WHOse Guidelines Matter? The Politics of Regulating Traditional Medicine in Bangladesh
- 2 Science as Global Governance and Circulation tool? The Baekshuoh Disaster in South Korea
- 3 Governing Medical Traditions in Myanmar
- 4 Negotiating Chinese Medical Value and Authority in the (Bio)polis
- 5 "Health Products" at the Boundary between Food and Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Fish Liver Oil
- 6 Globalized Planta Medica and Processes of Drug Validation: The Artemisinin Enterprise
- 7 Circumventing Regulation and Professional Legitimization. The Circulation of Chinese Medicine between China and France
- Afterword: Governance, Circulation, and Pharmaceutical Objects
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