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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowled
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Laurent PordiƩ
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond it
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
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Pages: 307
Authors: Theresia Hofer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through gover
Medicine Between Science and Religion
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Healing Elements
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Sienna R. Craig
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Healing Elements is a beautiful ethnography of the practices, products and epistemology of Tibetan Medicine. Through her rich and gifted storytelling of experi