Overview

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, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.

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Author:   Vincanne Adams ,  Mona Schrempf ,  Sienna R. Craig
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   v. 10
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9781845457587

ISBN 10:   1845457587
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig PART I: HISTORIES OF TIBETAN MEDICAL MODERNITIES Chapter 2. Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity Alex McKay Chapter 3. Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities Martin Saxer PART II: PRODUCING SCIENCE, TRUTH AND MEDICAL MORALITIES Chapter 4. Navigating 'Modern Science' and 'Traditional Culture': The Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India Stefan Kloos Chapter 5. A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice Vincanne Adams, Rinchen Dhondup and Phuoc Le Chapter 6. Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Concepts in Amchi Medical Practice Barbara Gerke PART III: THERAPEUTIC RITUALS AND SITUATED CHOICES Chapter 7. Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo Mona Schrempf Chapter 8. The Extension of Obstetrics In Ladakh Kim Gutschow Chapter 9. From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value, and Method Sienna R. Craig PART IV: RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION Chapter 10. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: History, Background, and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa Mingji Cuomu Chapter 11. The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Dra ('bras) versus Cancer Olaf Czaja Chapter 12. Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a Tibetan Yoga Intervention (tsalung trukhor) for People with Cancer M. Alejandro Chaoul Epilogue Chapter 13. Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility Geoffrey Samuel Index

Reviews

- an excellent contribution to the literature on Tibetan medicine in the context of modernity and globalization... The editors do an exceptional job at framing the analyses provided in specific chapters. Their introduction to the volume is wonderfully written and instructive to the reader in regards to the scope and intent of the volume.A Craig Janes, Simon Fraser University, BC - an excellent volume with many important contributions that fit together well.A Frances Garrett, University of Toronto

Author Information

Vincanne Adams is Professor and Director of the University of California San Francisco Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology (joint with UC Berkeley). Her books include Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (1996), Doctors for Democracy (1998) and Sex and Development (with Stacy Pigg, 2005).

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