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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453109703321

Autore

Saxer Martin <1971->

Titolo

Manufacturing Tibetan medicine [[electronic resource] ] : the creation of an industry and the moral economy of Tibetanness / / Martin Saxer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-775-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Epistemologies of healing ; ; v. 12

Disciplina

610.951

Soggetti

Medicine, Tibetan - Moral and ethical aspects - China

Medicine, Tibetan - Practice - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine; Series: Epistemologies of Healing; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration and Transcription; List of Abbreviations; Map of Tibet; Chapter 1: Introduction: Perspectives on Tibetan Medicine; Chapter 2: The Creation of an Industry; Chapter 3: Manufacturing Good Practice; Chapter 4: Raw Materials, Refined; Chapter 5: Knowledge, Property; Chapter 6: The Aesthetic Enterprise; Chapter 7: The Moral Economy of Tibetanness; Chapter 8: Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State's policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understandi