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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2010.
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Colección: | Epistemologies of healing.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Medicine between Science and Religion; Series: Epistemologies of Healing; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration; Chapter 1: Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion; Part I: Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities; Chapter 2:Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity; Chapter 3: Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities; Part II: Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities; Chapter 4: Navigating 'Modern Science' and 'Traditional Culture': the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India.
- Chapter 5: A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan PracticeChapter 6: Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice; Part III: Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices; Chapter 7: Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo; Chapter 8: From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh; Chapter 9: From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method; Part IV: Research in Translation.
- Chapter 10: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa RigpaChapter 11:The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä ('bras) versus Cancer; Chapter 12: Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a 'Tibetan Yoga' (tsalungtrul̈khor) Intervent; Chapter 13: Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility; Notes on Contributors; Index.