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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 Elements" explores 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 exploration of efficacy - what does it mean to say Tibetan medicine "works"? - this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine and the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies.
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- EditoreUniv of California Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 0520273230
- ISBN 13 9780520273238
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine321
- Valutazione libreria
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Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
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University of California Press
(2012)
ISBN 10: 0520273230
ISBN 13: 9780520273238
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Codice articolo M0520273230Z3
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