Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 10 : Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.
Title:
Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 10 : Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.
Author:
Schrempf, Mona.
ISBN:
9789047422105
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (455 pages)
Series:
Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003 ; v.10
Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003
Contents:
MONA SCHREMPF-Introduction: Refocusing on Tibetan Medicine -- PART ONE: TIBETAN MEDICINE AND MODERNITY -- ALEX MCKAY-Himalayan Medical Encounters: the Establishment of Biomedicine in Tibet and in Indian Exile -- VINCANNE ADAMS-Integrating Abstraction: Modernising Medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang -- AUDREY PROST-Sa cha 'di ma 'phrod na... Displacement and Traditional Tibetan Medicine among Tibetan Refugees in India -- SUSAN HEYDON-Sherpa Beliefs and Western Medicine: Providing Health Care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal -- PART TWO: TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONALISATION, AND ISSUES OF IDENTITY -- MONA SCHREMPF-Bon Lineage Doctors and the Local Transmission of Knowing Medical Practice in Nagchu -- SIENNA CRAIG-A Crisis of Confidence: a Comparison between Shifts in Tibetan Medical Education in Nepal and Tibet -- FLORIAN BESCH-Making a Medical Living: on the Monetisation of Tibetan Medicine in Spiti -- DENISE GLOVER-The Land of Milk and Barley: Medicinal Plants, Staple Foods, and Discourses of Subjectivity in Rgyal thang -- PART THREE: BODIES, SPIRIT(S) AND ILLNESS -- BARBARA GERKE-Engaging the Subtle Body: Re-approaching bla Rituals in the Himalaya -- GEOFFREY SAMUEL-Spirit Causation and Illness in Tibetan Medicine -- ERIC JACOBSON-'Life-wind Illness' in Tibetan Medicine: Depression, Generalised Anxiety, and Panic Attack -- COLIN MILLARD-Tibetan Medicine and the Classification and Treatment of Mental Illness -- M. ALEJANDRO CHAOUL-'Magical Movements' ('phrul 'khor) in the Bon Tradition and Possible Applications as a CIM Therapy -- PART FOUR: HISTORY OF TIBETAN MEDICINE -- DAN MARTIN-An Early Tibetan History of Indian Medicine -- YAN ZHEN AND CAI JINGFENG-Tibetan and Chinese Pulse Diagnostics: a Comparison-with Special Reference to Locations for Pulse Taking.
OLAF CZAJA-The Making of the Blue Beryl - Some Remarks on the Textual Sources of the Famous Commentary of Sangye Gyatsho (1653-1705) -- THERESIA HOFER-Preliminary Investigations into New Oral and Textual Sources on Byang lugs - the 'Northern School' of Tibetan Medicine -- FRANCES GARRETT-Embryology and Embodiment in Tibetan Literature: Narrative Epistemology and the Rhetoric of Identity -- HENK BLEZER ET AL.-Brief Outlook: Desiderata in the Study of the History of Tibetan Medicine -- Index.
Abstract:
This collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine provides fascinating new insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary Tibetan societies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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