Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world: global politics of medical knowledge and practice
Tibetan medicine today: neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool / Laurent Pordié -- Inventing tradition: Tibetan medicine in the post-socialist -- Contexts of China and Mongolia / Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard -- Place and professionalization: navigating amchi identity i...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2008
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series: | Needham Research Institute series
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz271896566inh.htm
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Laurent Pordié |
| Summary: | Tibetan medicine today: neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool / Laurent Pordié -- Inventing tradition: Tibetan medicine in the post-socialist -- Contexts of China and Mongolia / Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard -- Place and professionalization: navigating amchi identity in Nepal / Sienna R. Craig -- The diffusion of Tibetan medicine in China: a descriptive panorama / Chen Hua -- Integration or erasure?: modernizing medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams & Fei-Fei Li -- Hijacking intellectual property rights: identities and social power in the Indian Himalayas / Laurent Pordié -- Tibetan medicine and biodiversity management in Dolpo, Nepal: negotiating local and global worldviews, knowledge and practices / Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas & Yeshi C. Lama -- The integration of Tibetan medicine in the United Kingdom: the clinics of the Tara Institute of Medicine / Colin Millard -- Tibetan medicine revisited in the West: notes on the integrative efforts and transformative consequences occurring in Massachusetts, USA / Ivette Vargas -- An ancient medicine in a new world: a Tibetan medicine doctor's reflection from 'inside' / Eliot Tokar -- The politics of Tibetan medicine and the constitution of an object of study: some comments / Geoffrey Samuel |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0415447895 9780415447898 |