Medicine between science and religion : explorations on Tibetan grounds / / edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.9515
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Religious life and customs; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Social life and customs
• Altri autori: AdamsVincanne <1959-> SchrempfMona CraigSienna R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine between science and religion
• ISBN: 1-84545-974-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781355403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Epistemologies of healing.