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• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 17 June 2019

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 21 August 2012

The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
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• Release Date : 07 June 2024

Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship between the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2010

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

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 15 October 2007

This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 07 June 2024

This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 January 2015

Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
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• Release Date : 15 March 2018

Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2013

Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit,

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 22 August 2012

Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on