About
AMZ is a publication of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (www.IASTM.org). We publish insightful scholarly work on Asian traditions of health, medicine, and the body by scholars, researchers, and practitioners of Asian medicine. © All rights reserved by the authors.
The site is moderated by Dr Pierce Salguero. He is a postdisciplinary scholar fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between health, spirituality, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teach courses in Asian history, religions, and health humanities at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He also has been the editor in chief of the journal Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine since 2016.
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This is a repository by and for scholars, researchers, and practitioners of Asian medicine. We focus on historical, anthropological, sociological, political, and philological dimensions of Asian medicine. The site is maintained by Prof. Pierce Salguero, but all content is wholly generated by our authors, who retain all rights and responsibilities for what is written here. If you are interested in writing for AMZ, please contact Prof. Salguero to discuss your proposal. Please note that this publication tends to only accept established scholars and scholar-practitioners as authors.
