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Medicine Between Science and Religion : Explorations on Tibetan Grounds.

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Vincanne
Otros Autores: Schrempf, Mona, Craig, Sienna R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (386 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781845459741
1845459741