Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world
Subtitle: global politics of medical knowledge and practice
By: [edited by] Laurent Pordié.
Contributors: Pordié, Laurent.
Series: Needham Research Institute series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415447898
Subjects: Medicine, Tibetan; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- methods -- Case Reports; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice -- Case Reports; World Health -- Case Reports
Genres: Case Reports
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tibetan medicine today: neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool / Laurent Pordié; title: Inventing tradition: Tibetan medicine in the post-socialist; title: Contexts of China and Mongolia / Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard; title: Place and professionalization: navigating amchi identity in Nepal / Sienna R. Craig; title: The diffusion of Tibetan medicine in China: a descriptive panorama / Chen Hua; title: Integration or erasure?: modernizing medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams & Fei-Fei Li; title: Hijacking intellectual property rights: identities and social power in the Indian Himalayas / Laurent Pordié; title: Tibetan medicine and biodiversity management in Dolpo, Nepal: negotiating local and global worldviews, knowledge and practices / Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas & Yeshi C. Lama; title: The integration of Tibetan medicine in the United Kingdom: the clinics of the Tara Institute of Medicine / Colin Millard; title: Tibetan medicine revisited in the West: notes on the integrative efforts and transformative consequences occurring in Massachusetts, USA / Ivette Vargas; title: An ancient medicine in a new world: a Tibetan medicine doctor's reflection from 'inside' / Eliot Tokar; title: The politics of Tibetan medicine and the constitution of an object of study: some comments / Geoffrey Samuel.