Mixing medicines : ecologies of care in Buddhist Siberia /

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Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine's attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chudakova, Tatiana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Thinking from elsewhere.
Temas:
Medicine, Tibetan.
Médecine tibétaine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Mixing Medicines
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 "May All Living Beings Benefit": Passions of Translation
  • 2 "To Search for the Solely Rational": Engineering Tibetan Pulse Diagnosis
  • 3 "The Medicine of the Future, Now Available": Geographies of Medical Integration
  • 4 "Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient": Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies
  • 5 "We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering": The Contingencies of Mixing Medicines
  • 6 "Nothing in the World That Couldn't Be Medicinal": The Limits of Extraction
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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