Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine /

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"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 the other it must be proven efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards, often through clinical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Craig, Sienna R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkerley : University of California Press, 2012.
Temas:
Medicine, Tibetan.
Holistic medicine.
Electronic books.
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
Asian People > ethnology
Holistic Health
Médecine tibétaine.
Médecine holistique.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
MEDICAL > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Holistic medicine
Medicine, Tibetan
Medizin
Heilkunde
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Tibet
alternative medicine.
anthropology.
biomedicine.
biophysical.
biopolitics.
buddhism.
china.
complementary medicine.
cultural authenticity.
efficacy.
global medicine.
healing and medicine.
healing sciences.
health and wellness.
herbal medicine.
herbal medicines.
medical anthropologists.
nepal.
nonfiction.
panacea.
psychosocial.
social ecologies.
therapies.
tibet.
tibetan buddhism.
tibetan culture.
tibetan medicine.
traditional healing.
traditional medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Portrait of a Himalayan healer
  • The pulse of an institution
  • Lineage and legitimacy
  • Therapeutic encounters
  • Good manufacturing practices
  • Cultivating the wilds
  • The biography of a medicine.

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