Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world : global politics of medical knowledge and practice

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    • Pordié, Laurent

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Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world : global politics of medical knowledge and practice

edited by Laurent Pordié

(Needham Research Institute series)

Routledge, 2011, c2008

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published 2008, first issued in paperback 2011." -- T.p. verso

Contents of Works

  • 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 and 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 and 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 and 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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