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Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine / / Sienna R. Craig
| Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine / / Sienna R. Craig |
| Autore | Craig Sienna R. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [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 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 |
| ISBN |
1-281-60420-8
9786613784896 0-520-95158-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779116503321 |
Craig Sienna R.
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
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What is medicine? [[electronic resource] ] : Western and Eastern approaches to healing / / Paul U. Unschuld ; translated from the German by Karen Reimers
| What is medicine? [[electronic resource] ] : Western and Eastern approaches to healing / / Paul U. Unschuld ; translated from the German by Karen Reimers |
| Autore | Unschuld Paul U (Paul Ulrich), <1943-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Philosophy - History
Medicine, Oriental - Philosophy - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ancient healing
china chinese medicine cognitive dynamics comparative history debate doctors and patients eastern medicine economics europe european medicine healing and medicine health and wellness health care policies health care professionals history of medicine human health medical theory modern medicine molecular biology nonfiction pathology physiology political shifts scientists traditional practices western adaptations western medicine |
| ISBN | 0-520-94470-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Life = Body Plus X -- 2. Medicine, or Novelty Appeal -- 3. Why Laws of Nature? -- 4. Longing for Order -- 5. Ethics and Legality -- 6. Why Here? Why Now? -- 7. Thales' Trite Observation -- 8. Polis, Law, and Self-determination -- 9. The Individual and the Whole -- 10. Nonmedical Healing -- 11. Mawangdui: Early Healing in China -- 12. Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -- 13. The Yellow Thearch's Body Image -- 14. The Birth of Chinese Medicine -- 15. The Division of the Elite -- 16. A View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -- 17. State Concept and Body Image -- 18. Farewell to Demons and Spirits -- 19. New Pathogens, and Morality -- 20. Medicine without Pharmaceutics -- 21. Pharmaceutics without Medicine -- 22. Puzzling Parallels -- 23. The Beginning of Medicine in Greece -- 24. The End of Monarchy -- 25. Troublemakers and Ostracism -- 26. See Something You Don't See -- 27. Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -- 28. Confucians' Fear of Chaos -- 29. Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -- 30. Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -- 31. The Hour of the Dissectors -- 32. Manifold Experiences of the World -- 33. Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -- 34. Illness as Stasis -- 35. Head and Limbs -- 36. The Rediscovery of Wholeness -- 37. To Move the Body to a Statement -- 38. Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -- 39. Europe's Ancient Pharmacology -- 40. The Wheel of Progress Turns No More -- 41. Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures -- 42. Arabian Interlude -- 43. The Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -- 44. Changes in the Song Era -- 45. The Authority of Distant Antiquity -- 46. Zhang Ji's Belated Honors -- 47. Chinese Pharmacology |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790258003321 |
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Unschuld Paul U (Paul Ulrich), <1943->
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| Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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