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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibeta...
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Knowledge and context in Tibetan medicine / edited by William A. McGrath. Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019. 1 online resource (XX, 372 pages) : illustraties ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume43 Includes bibliographical references and index. Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Navigating the Ocean of Tibetan Medical Literature / William A. McGrath -- A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Bibliography -- Figures -- Contributors -- The Vicissitudes of Meaning in Context -- A New Sense of (Dark) Humor in Tibet: Brown Phlegm and Black Bile / Henk Blezer -- A Preliminary Study on the Biography of Yutok Yönten Gönpo the Elder: Reflections on the Origins of Tibetan Medicine / Yang Ga -- “Secret Medicine” in the Writings of Sanggyé Gyatso: the Encoded Esoteric Material of Therapeutics / Tony Chui -- Visceral Anatomy as Depicted in Tibetan Medicine / Katharina Sabernig -- The Modern Biomedical Conception of Cancer and Its Many Potential Correlates in the Tibetan Medical Tradition / Tawni Tidwell -- Medicine and Religion in Context -- The Nine-Fold Magical Cord Cycle: Investigating ’Phrul gyi the gu brgu skor, a Wartime Medical Manual / Tsering Samdrup -- Knowledge, Imagery, and the Treatment of Communicable Disease in the Vase of the Amṛta of Immortality: A Preliminary Analysis of a Nyingma Medical Corpus / Carmen Simioli -- Tantric Divination and Empirical Diagnosis: a Genealogy of Channel Prasenā Rituals in the Tibetan Medical Tradition / William A. McGrath -- Madness and the Spirits: Examining the Role of Spirits in Mental Illness in the Tibetan Communities of Darjeeling / Susannah Deane -- Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills / Barbara Gerke -- Back Matter -- Index. Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People’s Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine. Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Medicine, Tibetan. Medicine, Tibetan History. McGrath, William A., editor. 90-04-40149-0 Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; volume43. |
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