1st Edition
Asian Medical Industries Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals
Introduction: Asian Medical Industries, Stephan Kloos Part 1: East Asian Medical Industries 1. Discovering New Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai Pharmaceuticals, Liz P. Y. Chee 2. Cultivation and Paternalism in the Service of the Market: Medical Industry and Ethnicity in Southwest China, Manuel Campinas 3. The Development of the Kampo Medicines Industry: ‘Good Practices’ and Health Policy-Making in Japan, Ichiro Arai, Julia Yongue, and Kiichiro Tsutani 4. The Pharmaceutical Industry of Toyama Prefecture, Japan: Haichi Household Medicines, Intersectoral Collaboration and Industrial Clustering, Tomoko Futaya & Calum Blaikie Part 2: South Asian Medical Industries 5. Globalizing Ayurveda, Branding India: Implications for the Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Industry, Chithprabha Kudlu 6. Industry Dynamics and Clustering in Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Production in South India: The Case of CARe Keralam, Harilal Madhavan & Sajitha Soman 7. Untangling the Web of Raw Material Supply for the Ayurvedic Industry: The Complex Geography of Plant Circulations, Lucie Dejouhanet & Sreelakshmy M. Part 3: Sowa Rigpa Industries 8. "Sourcery": Losing Track of Tibetan Medicinal Plants between Commerce and Conservation in Northern India, Jan van der Valk 9. Making Tibetan Medicine in Nepal: Industrial Aspirations, Cooperative Relations, and Precarious Production, Calum Blaikie & Sienna Craig 10. The Emergence of the Traditional Mongolian Medicine Industry: Communism, Continuity and Reassemblage, Stephan Kloos Conclusion: Assembling Asian Pharmaceuticals, Calum Blaikie
Biography
Stephan Kloos is Acting Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research on the development of Sowa Rigpa has been published in numerous articles and the co-edited volume Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India (Pordié & Kloos).
Calum Blaikie is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Focusing on pharmaceutical, institutional, and economic dimensions of Sowa Rigpa in the Himalayas, his research has been published in numerous leading academic journals and edited volumes.
