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UNINA9910480927203321 |
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Titolo |
Medicine between science and religion [[electronic resource] ] : explorations on Tibetan grounds / / edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Collana |
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Epistemologies of healing |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AdamsVincanne <1959-> |
SchrempfMona |
CraigSienna R |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine, Chinese - China - Tibet Autonomous Region |
Medical anthropology - China - Tibet Autonomous Region |
Medicine - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - Religious aspects |
Religion and science - China - Tibet Autonomous Region |
Electronic books. |
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Religious life and customs |
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Histories of Tibetan medical modernities -- pt. 2. Producing science, truth and medical moralities -- pt. 3. Therapeutic rituals, situated choices -- pt. 4. Research in translation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to |
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