Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780367225346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str.

Celine Coderey; Laurent Pordie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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