Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine

List 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

About the author

Céline Coderey is an Anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore.
Laurent Pordié is an Anthropologist and Senior Researcher with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS-CERMES3), France.

Summary

This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine from their production in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.

Product details

• Authors: Celine Pordie Coderey
• Assisted by: Celine Coderey (Editor), Céline Coderey (Editor), Laurent Pordie (Editor), Laurent Pordié (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367225346
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22534-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SELF-HELP / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Health & personal development, Human biology, Society and culture: general, Health, Relationships and Personal development