title: Gender, science, and indigenous medicine: planning research on asian women professional providers.
abstract: Women's health care prospects around the world depend on many factors, including broad social changes involving how gender dimensions within traditional medicine are transformed by global biomedicine. I propose a model that will help us to evaluate international health care transformation in Asia through understanding the specific impact of biomedicine on women practitioners of indigenous medicine. I suggest in the model that the relationship among gender, indigenous medico-science, and biomedicine is shaped by culture-specific and historical gender organization, the gendered knowledge foundations of indigenous medicine, and modernizing biomedical and Western science influences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. mcameron@fau.edu
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010819:Physician's Role; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014933:Women's Rights; D014931:Women, Working