title: Translating 'Asian' Modes of Healing and Biomedicine.
abstract: This review article discusses the 'translation of Asian modes of healing and medicine' in six recently published books by raising seven questions. They serve both to review the volumes and to ask how we have moved from understanding systems of healing in terms of tradition and modernity, science and nonscience, globalization and locality, innovation and cultural heritage, to translating them in terms of assemblages, products, modes of resistance, social (dis-)harmony, and ecological balance. The questions span subjects ranging from the meaning of 'Asian' in Asian modes of healing, the object of healing and classifications of systems of healing to their relation with 'biomedicine,' modernization and the state, the extents to which communities share healing tradition, and their existential meaning in context.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , University of Sussex , Brighton , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sleeboom-Faulkner
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D026443:Spiritual Therapies
keywords: Asian ritual healing; alternative medicine; balance; biomedicine; humoral medicine