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This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel per­spective on traditional Asian medicines.

Complementing and updating existing work in this field, the book pro­vides a critical and comparative analytic framework for understanding Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa, and Japanese Kampo in the 21st century. No longer subaltern health resources or conservative systems of traditional knowledge, these medicines have become an integral part of modern Asia as innovative, lucrative industries. Ten original case studies employ insights from anthropology, history, geography, pharmaceutical sciences, botany, and economics to trace the transformation of Asian med­ical traditions into rapidly growing and dynamic pharmaceutical indus­tries. Collectively, these contributions identify this as a major phenomenon impacting Asian and global healthcare, economics, cultural politics, and environments. The book suggests that we can learn more about Asian med­icines today by approaching them as industries rather than as cultural or epistemic systems.