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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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Other Authors: Pordié, Laurent (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2008
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Needham Research Institute series
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Medizin
Tibet
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz271896566inh.htm
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Author Notes:ed. by Laurent Pordié
Table of Contents:
  • 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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