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Healing elements: efficacy and the social ecologies of Tibetan medicine

2012 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 9780520273238 ;ISBN: 0520273230 ;ISBN: 0520273249 ;ISBN: 9780520273245 ;EISBN: 0520951581 ;EISBN: 9780520951587 ;OCLC: 801365297 ;LCCallNum: R603.T5

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  • Title:
    Healing elements: efficacy and the social ecologies of Tibetan medicine
  • Author: Craig, Sienna R
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; China ; ethnology ; Holistic Health ; Holistic medicine ; Medicine, Chinese ; Medicine, Tibetan ; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Tibet ; Tibet Autonomous Region
  • Description: Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness. Healing Elements explores how Tibetan medicine circulates through diverse settings in Nepal, China, and beyond as commercial goods and gifts, and as target therapies and panacea for biophysical and psychosocial ills. Through an exploration of efficacy – what does it mean to say Tibetan medicine "works"? – this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine and the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 344
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780520273238
    ISBN: 0520273230
    ISBN: 0520273249
    ISBN: 9780520273245
    EISBN: 0520951581
    EISBN: 9780520951587
    OCLC: 801365297
    LCCallNum: R603.T5
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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