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Medicine and Memory in Tibet : <i>Amchi</i> Physicians in an Age of Reform /

Une source inconnue indique : "Medicine on the Margins explores the ways in which Tibetan medical doctors have preserved and revitalized aspects of Tibetan medicine over the past fifty years. During decades of forced sociopolitical and economic upheaval in Tsang Province of China's Tibetan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hofer, Theresia (19..-....) (Author)
Other Authors: Harrell, Stevan (1947-....) (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle [Wash.] : University of Washington Press.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Stevan Harrell
  • The Tibetan medical house
  • Medicine and religion in the politics and public health of the Tibetan state
  • Narrative, time, and reform
  • The medico-cultural revolution
  • Reviving Tibetan medicine, integrating biomedicine
  • Looking at illness
  • Glossary.