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Titolo: |
Medicine between science and religion : explorations on Tibetan grounds / / edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
Disciplina: | 951/.5 |
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->
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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: | 1-78238-123-6 |
1-84545-974-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819478903321 |
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