Main description:

Offers a new perspective on "traditional" Asian medicines
Provides original insights into "traditional" Asian pharmaceutical industries
Broad-ranging, multidisciplinary and comparative research on Asian medicine in China, India, Japan, Mongolia, and Nepal
Relevant to scholars, students, health professionals, and policy makers
Includes extensive bibliographies of essential but little-known scholarship on Asian medicines from Asia

Contents:

Introduction: Asian Medical Industries

Part 1: East Asian Medical Industries 1. Discovering New Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai Pharmaceuticals 2. Cultivation and Paternalism in the Service of the Market: Medical Industry and Ethnicity in Southwest China 3. The Development of the Kampo Medicines Industry: 'Good Practices' and Health Policy-Making in Japan 4. The Pharmaceutical Industry of Toyama Prefecture, Japan: Haichi Household Medicines, Intersectoral Collaboration and Industrial Clustering Part 2: South Asian Medical Industries 5. Globalizing Ayurveda, Branding India: Implications for the Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Industry 6. Industry Dynamics and Clustering in Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Production in South India: The Case of CARe Keralam 7. Untangling the Web of Raw Material Supply for the Ayurvedic Industry: The Complex Geography of Plant Circulations Part 3: Sowa Rigpa Industries 8. "Sourcery": Losing Track of Tibetan Medicinal Plants between Commerce and Conservation in Northern India 9. Making Tibetan Medicine in Nepal: Industrial Aspirations, Cooperative Relations, and Precarious Production 10. The Emergence of the Traditional Mongolian Medicine Industry: Communism, Continuity and Reassemblage

Conclusion: Assembling Asian Pharmaceuticals