Mixing Medicines : : Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia / / Tatiana Chudakova.
Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today’s Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. Mixing Medicines seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and replen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Thinking from Elsewhere
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 6 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 “May All Living Beings Benefit”: Passions of Translation
- 2 “To Search for the Solely Rational”: Engineering Tibetan Pulse Diagnosis
- 3 “The Medicine of the Future, Now Available”: Geographies of Medical Integration
- 4 “Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient”: Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies
- 5 “We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering”: The Contingencies of Mixing Medicines
- 6 “Nothing in the World That Couldn’t Be Medicinal”: The Limits of Extraction
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index