Medicine across cultures : history and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures / editor, Helaine Selin ; advisory editor, Hugh Shapiro.

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Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine / John M. Janzen and Edward C. Green -- Medicine in Ancient Egypt / Ahmed Shafik and Waseem R. Elseesy -- Medicine in Ancient China / Cai Jingfeng and Zhen Yan -- Ayurveda / Ananda S. Chopra -- Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Tibetan Medicine / Robert William Prasaad Steiner -- Traditional Thai Medicine / Viggo Brun -- Oriental Medicine in Korea / Don Baker -- Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America / Margaret Lock -- Traditional Aboriginal Health Practice in Australia / Dayalan Devanesen and Patrick Maher -- When Healing Cultures Collide: A Case from the Pacific / Cluny Macpherson and La´avasa Macpherson -- Native American Medicine: Herbal Pharmacology, Therapies, and Elder Care / Lewis Mehl-Madrona -- Lords of the Medicine Bag: Medical Science and Traditional Practice in Ancient Peru and South America / Ruben G. Mendoza -- Medicine in Ancient Mesoamerica / Carlos Viesca -- Healing Relationships in the African Caribbean / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Medicine in Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Cultures / Samuel Kottek --- Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia / Guy Attewell -- Chinese and Western Medicine / Hugh Shapiro -- Religion and Medicine / Jim B. Tucker -- The Relation Between Medical States and Soul Beliefs among Tribal Peoples / Ake Hultkrantz.