Introduction -- Part I: Disease management in medical and ritual contexts. The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular / Helen Lambert -- Like an Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist / Brigitte SeĢbastia -- Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity and resistance among Bengali Muslims / Fabrizio M. Ferrari -- Wong Tai Sin: the divine and healing in Hong Kong / Mark Greene -- Part II: Religious and medical explanatory models. Ghost exorcism,memory, and healing in Hinduism / Daniel Cohen --Storytelling and accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature / Anthony Cerulli -- Part III: Cultural interfaces and collisions. The method-and-wisdom model in the theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine / Vesna A. Wallace -- Balancing tradition alongside a progressively scientific Tibetan medical system / Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan -- Diagnostic techniques of Chinese medical traditions and their interface with the globalization of medical practice / Nancy Holroyde-Downing -- Healing Zen: exploring the brain on bowing / Paula R. Arai.
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