Medicine Between Science and Religion : : Explorations on Tibetan Grounds /

Medicine Between Science and Religion : : Explorations on Tibetan Grounds / / ed. by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, Sienna R. Craig.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Vincanne,
Chaoul, Alejandro,
Craig, Sienna R.,
Cuomu, Mingji,
Czaja, Olaf,
Dhondup, Renchen,
Gerke, Barbara,
Gutschow, Kim,
Kloos, Stephan,
Le, Phuoc V.,
McKay, Alex,
Samuel, Geoffrey,
Saxer, Martin,
Schrempf, Mona,
HerausgeberIn:
Adams, Vincanne,
Craig, Sienna R.,
Schrempf, Mona,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Epistemologies of Healing ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Transliteration
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion
  • Part I Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity
  • Chapter 3 Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities
  • Part II Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India
  • Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice
  • Chapter 6 Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice
  • Part III Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 7 Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo
  • Chapter 8 From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh
  • Chapter 9 From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method
  • Part IV Research in Translation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 10 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa
  • Chapter 11 The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer
  • Chapter 12 Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalung trülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer
  • Chapter 13 Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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