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Spring Books: Asian medicine—ancient and modern

Composed as it is of 21 contributions by distinguished authors, sometimes rather disparate in character, Asian Medical Systems: a Comparative Study' is both weighty and enlightened. It is weighty because much learning has gone into it, and it is enlightened because, while fully appreciating the achievements of modern medical science, it does not write off the ancient and traditional medical practices of East, South, and West Asia, as "quack" or "fringe" medicine. Indeed, the authors have a judiciously critical approach to modern Western medicine, and they do not regard Europe and America as possessing the be-all and end-all of knowledge and healing. Most of the authors met at a symposium on this subject organised by the Wenner-Gren Foundation at the castle of Burg-Wartenstein, in Austria, in 1971; and this book is the result of their deliberations. They comprise social anthropologists and psychologists, as well as historians of science and medicine. The sociologists are doing their best, but most doctors and historians will feel that sometimes there is too much jargon about "models" and "paradigms," together with abstract charts (the usefulness of which is not immediately obvious). The production of the book is elegant, though the print is rather fainter than it could be, and I found 20 or 30 misprints.