This co-edited volume with Dr. Zhou Xun (including essay contribution) entitled Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia: Collaborations and Collisions (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy, Routledge, 2015) makes a significant contribution to the field of transcultural medicine, religious studies in Asia as well as to a better understanding of public health in Asia as a whole. The book itself arose from a long-term concern in scholarship about studying culturally-embedded healing traditions that incorporate religious viewpoints in order to better understand local and global healing phenomena. Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan's essay contribution, "Balancing tradition alongside a progressively scientific Tibetan medical system" was based on extensive research in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China on illness and medicine and work with the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine in Hong Kong.
