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Medicine Between Science and Religion : Explorations on Tibetan Grounds / ed. by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, Sienna R. Craig.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemologies of Healing ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845457587
  • 9781845459741
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.9515 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion -- Part I Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity -- Chapter 3 Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities -- Part II Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India -- Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice -- Chapter 6 Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice -- Part III Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo -- Chapter 8 From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh -- Chapter 9 From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method -- Part IV Research in Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa -- Chapter 11 The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer -- Chapter 12 Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalung trülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer -- Chapter 13 Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion -- Part I Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity -- Chapter 3 Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities -- Part II Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India -- Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice -- Chapter 6 Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice -- Part III Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo -- Chapter 8 From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh -- Chapter 9 From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method -- Part IV Research in Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa -- Chapter 11 The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer -- Chapter 12 Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalung trülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer -- Chapter 13 Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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