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Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine / / Sienna R. Craig



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Autore: Craig Sienna R. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine / / Sienna R. Craig Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 pages)
Disciplina: 610.9515
Soggetto topico: Asian Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology - Tibet
Holistic Health - Tibet
Holistic medicine - Tibet
Medicine, Tibetan - Tibet
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional - Tibet
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
Holistic Health
Asians - ethnology
Anthropology
Soggetto geografico: Tibet
Soggetto non controllato: alternative medicine
anthropology
biomedicine
biophysical
biopolitics
buddhism
china
complementary medicine
cultural authenticity
efficacy
global medicine
healing and medicine
healing sciences
health and wellness
herbal medicine
herbal medicines
medical anthropologists
nepal
nonfiction
panacea
psychosocial
social ecologies
therapies
tibet
tibetan buddhism
tibetan culture
tibetan medicine
traditional healing
traditional medicine
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Use of Non-English Terms -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Portrait of a Himalayan Healer -- 2. The Pulse of an Institution -- 3. Lineage and Legitimacy -- 4. Therapeutic Encounters -- 5. Good Manufacturing Practices -- 6. Cultivating the Wilds -- 7. The Biography of a Medicine -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Healing Elements  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-60420-8
9786613784896
0-520-95158-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779116503321
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