Asian Medicine, Special Yoga Issue

[Mark Singleton]

Dear All,

I would like to draw your attention to the new special yoga issue of _Asian 
Medicine, Tradition and Modernity_, guest-edited by myself.

_Asian Medicine_ is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at researchers and 
practitioners of Asian medicine in Asia as well as western countries. This 
new issue examines yoga's changing status with regard to medicine, health 
and healing, offering a range of insights into their interaction and mutual 
appropriation in modern and pre-modern times. As such it provides a timely 
opportunity for critical reflection on yoga's function and status, both 
with regard to Indian systems of medicine, and more generally.

Copies can be ordered through IASTAM 
(http://www.iastam.org/collateral/Flyer02B.pdf) or Brill 
(http://www.brill.nl/asme). See below for a list of contents.

Best wishes,
Mark Singleton


CONTENTS:

Editorial
MARK SINGLETON

Academic Articles
A Preliminary Survey of Modern Yoga Studies
ELIZABETH DE MICHELIS

Yoga and Physical Education: Swami Kuvalayananda's Nationalist Project
JOSEPH S. ALTER

Stretching for Health and Well-being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960-1980
SUZANNE NEWCOMBE

Suggestive Therapeutics: New Thought's Relationship to Modern Yoga
MARK SINGLETON

Narrativity and Empiricism in Classical Indian Accounts of Birth and Death: 
The Mahābhārata and the Saṃhitās of Caraka and 
Suśruta FRED SMITH

Daoyin: Chinese Healing Exercises
LIVIA KOHN

Practice Report Magical Movements ('phrul 'khor): Ancient Tibetan Yogic 
Practices from the Bön Religion and their Migration into Contemporary 
Medical Settings M.A. CHAOUL

Resources The Identification of an Illustrated Haṭhayoga Manuscript 
and its Significance for Traditions of 84 Āsanas in Yoga GUDRUN 
BÜHNEMANN

Endpiece
GEOFFREY SAMUEL

Review

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