1st Edition

Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

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This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. Chapters analyze the process of industrialization and commercialization of Asian medicine and the ways in which the expansion of... Read more

Introduction: Governance and Circulation of Asian Medicines, Céline Coderey; 1 WHOse Guidelines Matter? The Politics of Regulating Traditional Medicine in Bangladesh, Karen M. McNamara; 2 Science as Global Governance and Circulation tool? The Baekshuoh Disaster in South Korea, Eunjeong Ma; 3 Governing Medical Traditions in Myanmar, Céline Coderey; 4 Negotiating Chinese Medical Value and Authority in the (Bio)polis, Arielle A. Smith; 5 "Health Products" at the Boundary between Food and Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Fish Liver Oil, Liz P.Y. Chee; 6 Globalized Planta Medica and Processes of Drug Validation: The Artemisinin Enterprise, Caroline Meier zu Biesen; 7 Circumventing Regulation and Professional Legitimization. The Circulation of Chinese Medicine between China and France, Simeng Wang; Afterword: Governance, Circulation, and Pharmaceutical Objects, Laurent Pordié