Their footprints remain : : biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier / / Alex McKay.
By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. <i>Their Footprints Remain</i> uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascin...
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Superior document: | IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 1 |
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | IIAS publications series. Monographs ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps and Tables
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1. Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong
- 2. Sikkim: Imperial Stepping-stone to Tibet
- 3. Biomedicine and Buddhist Medicine in Tibet
- 4. Medical myths and Tibetan trends
- 5. Bhutan: A Later Development
- 6. The Choice of Systems
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Attendance at Gyantse and Yatung IMS dispensaries
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index