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Healing Elements : Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkerley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.