From: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal

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  Volume 8, Number 1, 2014

Table of Contents

Special Issue on Beyond Tradition: Asian Medicines and STS

Guest Editors: Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei

Articles

Introduction

pp. 1-7
Volker Scheid, Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei
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Reading Hands: Pulse Qualities and the Specificity of the Clinical

pp. 9-24
Judith Farquhar
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Standardization and Its Discontents: Translation, Tension, and the Life of Language in Contemporary Chinese Medicine

pp. 25-42
Sonya E. Pritzker
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Herbs, Laboratories, and Revolution: On the Making of a National Medicine in Vietnam

pp. 43-56
Ayo Wahlberg
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The Reformulation Regime in Drug Discovery: Revisiting Polyherbals and Property Rights in the Ayurvedic Industry

pp. 57-79
Laurent Pordié, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
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Colonizing Safety: Creating Risk through the Enforcement of Biomedical Constructions of Safety

pp. 81-106
Paul Kadetz
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Convergent Lines of Descent: Symptoms, Patterns, Constellations, and the Emergent Interface of Systems Biology and Chinese Medicine

pp. 107-139
Volker Scheid
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Book Reviews

Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life by Kaushik Sunder Rajan (review)

pp. 141-142
Kai Khiun Liew
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Beng shidai: Caituan hua, pinqiong hua, yu shao zinu hua de weiji 崩世代：財團化、 貧窮化與少子女化的危機 [Generation of Collapse: Crises of Capital Monopoly, Poverty, and the Lowest Fertility in Taiwan] by Thung-Hong Lin 林宗弘 et al. (review)

pp. 143-146
Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun, Jui-Chung Allen Li
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Zongjiao yu yiliao 林富 [Religion and Healing] ed. by Fu-shih Lin 宗教與醫療 (review)

pp. 147-149
Shih-ch'i Chin
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The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader ed. by Sandra Harding (review)

pp. 151-153
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
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The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for Modernization by Megan J. Greene (review)

pp. 155-157
Wayne Soon
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