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



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Titolo: Medicine between science and religion : explorations on Tibetan grounds / / edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84545-974-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781355403321
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