Soundings in Tibetan medicine
Subtitle: anthropological and historical perspectives : PIATS 2003 : Tibetan studies : proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003
By: edited by Mona Schrempf.
Contributors: Schrempf, Mona.
Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 10/10
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9789004155503
Subjects: Medicine, Tibetan -- Congresses; Medical anthropology -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan -- History -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- India -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- Nepal -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- Tibet -- Congresses; Cultural Characteristics -- India -- Congresses; Cultural Characteristics -- Nepal -- Congresses; Cultural Characteristics -- Tibet -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- India -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- Nepal -- Congresses; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- Tibet -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: PIATS 2003; Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Himalayan medical encounters: the establishment of biomedicine in Tibet and in Indian exile / Alex McKay; title: Integrating abstraction: modernising medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams; title: Sa cha 'di ma 'phrod na: displacement and traditional Tibetan medicine among Tibetan refugees in India / Audrey Prost; title: Sherpa beliefs and western medicine: providing health care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal / Susan Heydon; title: Bon lineage doctors and the local transmission of knowing medical practice in Nagchu / Mona Schrempf; title: A crisis of confidence: a comparison between shifts in Tibetan medical education in Nepal and Tibet / Sienna Craig; title: Making a medical living: on the monetisation of Tibetan medicine in Spiti / Florian Besch; title: The land of milk and barley: medicinal plants, staple foods, and discourses of subjectivity in Rgyal thang / Denise Glover; title: Engaging the subtle body: re-approaching bla rituals in the Himalaya / Barbara Gerke; title: Spirit causation and illness in Tibetan medicine / Geoffrey Samuel; title: 'Life-wind illness' in Tibetan medicine: depression, generalised anxiety, and panic attack / Eric Jacobson; title: Tibetan medicine and the classification and treatment of mental illness / Colin Millard; title: 'Magical movements' ('phrul 'khor) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM therapy / M. Alejandro Chaoul; title: An early Tibetan history of Indian medicine / Dan Martin; title: Tibetan and Chinese pulse diagnostics: a comparison-with special reference to locations for pulse taking / Yan Zhen and Cai Jingfeng; title: The making of the Blue beryl: some remarks on the textual sources of the famous commentary of Sangye Gyatsho (1653-1705) / Olaf Czaja; title: Preliminary investigations into new oral and textual sources on Byang Lugs: the 'northern school' of Tibetan medicine / Theresia Hofer; title: Embryology and embodiment in Tibetan literature: narrative epistemology and the rhetoric of identity / Frances Garrett; title: Brief outlook: desiderata in the study of the history of Tibetan medicine / Henk Blezer ... et al.