Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine : : The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness / / Martin Saxer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Saxer, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Transliteration and Transcription --; List of Abbreviations --; Map of Tibet --; Chapter 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Tibetan Medicine --; Chapter 2 The Creation of an Industry --; Chapter 3 Manufacturing Good Practice --; Chapter 4 Raw Materials, Refined --; Chapter 5 Knowledge, Property --; Chapter 6 The Aesthetic Enterprise --; Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Tibetanness --; Chapter 8 Conclusions --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457752; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457752
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Saxer.

Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State’s policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understanding, the Tibetan medicine industry has become an arena in which different visions of Tibet’s future clash.