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Manufacturing Tibetan medicine : the creation of an industry and the moral economy of Tibetanness /
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, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re- )manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State's policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understan. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0857457756 9780857457752 1299777864 9781299777866 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |