Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world

• Titel: Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world
• Titelzusatz: global politics of medical knowledge and practice
• Mitwirkende: Pordié, Laurent [Hrsg.]
• Verf.angabe: ed. by Laurent Pordié
• Ausgabe: 1. publ.
• Verlagsort: London [u.a.]
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2008
• Umfang: XVI, 271 S.
• Format: cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Needham Research Institute series
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references
• Inhalt: Tibetan medicine today: neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool / Laurent Pordié -- Inventing tradition: Tibetan medicine in the post-socialist -- Contexts of China and Mongolia / Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard -- Place and professionalization: navigating amchi identity in Nepal / Sienna R. Craig -- The diffusion of Tibetan medicine in China: a descriptive panorama / Chen Hua -- Integration or erasure?: modernizing medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams & Fei-Fei Li -- Hijacking intellectual property rights: identities and social power in the Indian Himalayas / Laurent Pordié -- Tibetan medicine and biodiversity management in Dolpo, Nepal: negotiating local and global worldviews, knowledge and practices / Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas & Yeshi C. Lama -- The integration of Tibetan medicine in the United Kingdom: the clinics of the Tara Institute of Medicine / Colin Millard -- Tibetan medicine revisited in the West: notes on the integrative efforts and transformative consequences occurring in Massachusetts, USA / Ivette Vargas -- An ancient medicine in a new world: a Tibetan medicine doctor's reflection from 'inside' / Eliot Tokar -- The politics of Tibetan medicine and the constitution of an object of study: some comments / Geoffrey Samuel
• ISBN: 0-415-44789-5
• ISBN: 978-0-415-44789-8
• Schlagwörter: (g)Tibet / (s)Medizin
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Sonstige Nr.: Identnummer: 2007031100
• RVK-Notation: LC 56440
• RVK-Notation: LC 56390
• K10plus-PPN: 538916451

Abstract

Tibetan medicine today: neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool / Laurent Pordié -- Inventing tradition: Tibetan medicine in the post-socialist -- Contexts of China and Mongolia / Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard -- Place and professionalization: navigating amchi identity in Nepal / Sienna R. Craig -- The diffusion of Tibetan medicine in China: a descriptive panorama / Chen Hua -- Integration or erasure?: modernizing medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams & Fei-Fei Li -- Hijacking intellectual property rights: identities and social power in the Indian Himalayas / Laurent Pordié -- Tibetan medicine and biodiversity management in Dolpo, Nepal: negotiating local and global worldviews, knowledge and practices / Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas & Yeshi C. Lama -- The integration of Tibetan medicine in the United Kingdom: the clinics of the Tara Institute of Medicine / Colin Millard -- Tibetan medicine revisited in the West: notes on the integrative efforts and transformative consequences occurring in Massachusetts, USA / Ivette Vargas -- An ancient medicine in a new world: a Tibetan medicine doctor's reflection from 'inside' / Eliot Tokar -- The politics of Tibetan medicine and the constitution of an object of study: some comments / Geoffrey Samuel