This volume contains five chapters written by American, European and Central Asian scholars, who examine a range of issues critical to our understanding of health and healing in contemporary Central Asia. Grounded in the review of medical literature in Arabic, Persian and Chaghatay Turkic, extensive field work in the Central Asian republics, and the examination of state and Communist Party archival records, this book offers a range of insights and new perspectives on this area. The chapters of this edited volume survey largely unstudied medical texts produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, provide a detailed account of the administrative regulation of addiction and Stalinist repression of opium users in Soviet Badakhshan, explore the complex relationships between biomedicine and indigenous healing practices and discourses, and discuss the politics and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Central Asia. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
| ISBN: | 9781138954724 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2015 |
| Author: | Alisher Columbia University, USA Latypov |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Series: | ThirdWorlds |
| Genres: |
Regional / International studies Sociology Medical sociology Regional geography Complementary therapies, healing and health Health, illness and addiction: social aspects |
This volume contains five chapters written by American, European and Central Asian scholars, who examine a range of issues critical to our understanding of health and healing in contemporary Central Asia. Grounded in the review of medical literature in Arabic, Persian and Chaghatay Turkic, extensive field work in the Central Asian republics, and the examination of state and Communist Party archival records, this book offers a range of insights and new perspectives on this area. The chapters of this edited volume survey largely unstudied medical texts produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, provide a detailed account of the administrative regulation of addiction and Stalinist repression of opium users in Soviet Badakhshan, explore the complex relationships between biomedicine and indigenous healing practices and discourses, and discuss the politics and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Central Asia. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia features in the following genres: Regional / International studies, Sociology, Medical sociology, Regional geography, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia is available in Paperback, Hardback
Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia was written by Alisher Columbia University, USA Latypov and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia has 104 pages
Yes it is part of ThirdWorlds series
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