Healing Elements Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine

Name: Healing Elements Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
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ISBN: 9780520273245

ISBN-10: 0520273249

ISBN-13: 9780520273245

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sienna R. Craig

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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 prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness.Healing Elementsexplores how Tibetan medicine circulates through diverse settings in Nepal, China, and beyond as commercial goods and gifts, and as target therapies and panacea for biophysical and psychosocial ills. Through an…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Sienna Craigis an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author ofHorses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayaand coeditor ofMedicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Notes on the Use of Non-English Terms


List of Acronyms


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


Conclusion


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index