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Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources
Contributor(s): Salguero, C. Pierce (Editor)
ISBN: 0231189362     ISBN-13: 9780231189361
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $148.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Religion & Science
- Religion | Buddhism - Rituals & Practice
- Medical | History
Dewey: 294.336
LCCN: 2019001088
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.70 lbs) 424 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Buddhist
 
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Publisher Description:
Over the centuries, Buddhist ideas have influenced medical thought and practice in complex and varied ways in diverse regions and cultures. A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine.

Covering the early modern period to the present, this anthology focuses on the many ways Buddhism and medicine were shaped by the forces of colonialism, science, and globalization, as well as ruptures and reconciliations between tradition and modernity. Editor C. Pierce Salguero and an international collection of scholars highlight diversity and innovation in the encounters between Buddhist and medical thought. The chapters contain a wide range of sources presenting different perspectives rooted in distinct times and places, including translations of published and unpublished documents and transcripts of ethnographic interviews as well as accounts by missionaries and colonial authorities and materials from the contemporary United States and United Kingdom. Together, these varied sources illustrate the many intersections of Buddhism and medicine in the past and how this nexus continues to be crucial in today's global context.

Contributor Bio(s): Salguero, C. Pierce: - C. Pierce Salguero (PhD, History of Medicine, Hopkins) is Associate Professor of Asian History and Religious Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (Pennsylvania, 2014), Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda (Hohm, 2015), and Buddhism and Medicine: A Global History (Columbia, 2019) and the editor of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (Columbia, 2017).