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Mixing Medicines : Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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