| Description |
1 online resource (386 pages) |
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Epistemologies of Healing |
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Epistemologies of healing.
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| Contents |
Medicine between Science and Religion; Series: Epistemologies of Healing; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion; Part I: Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities; Chapter 2:Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity; Chapter 3: Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities; Part II: Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities; Chapter 4: Navigating 'Modern Science' and 'Traditional Culture': the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India |
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Chapter 5: A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan PracticeChapter 6: Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice; Part III: Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices; Chapter 7: Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo; Chapter 8: From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh; Chapter 9: From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method; Part IV: Research in Translation |
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Chapter 10: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa RigpaChapter 11:The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä ('bras) versus Cancer; Chapter 12: Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a 'Tibetan Yoga' (tsalungtrul̈khor) Intervent; Chapter 13: Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to th |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Medicine, Chinese -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Medical anthropology -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Medicine -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Religious aspects
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Religion and science -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Ethnology.
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Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
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Religion and Medicine
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Integrative Medicine
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Manners and customs
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Medical anthropology
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Medicine, Chinese
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Religion and science
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schrempf, Mona
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Craig, Sienna R
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| ISBN |
9781845459741 |
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1845459741 |
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