Soundings in Tibetan medicine : anthropological and historical perspectives : PIATS 2003 : Tibetan studies : proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 / edited by Mona Schrempf
- Bib ID:
- 4353450
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar Oxford, England)
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
- vi, 449 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004155503
- 9004155503
- Series:
- Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 10/10.
- Full contents:
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- Himalayan medical encounters: the establishment of biomedicine in Tibet and in Indian exile / Alex McKay
- Integrating abstraction: modernising medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams
- Sa cha 'di ma 'phrod na: displacement and traditional Tibetan medicine among Tibetan refugees in India / Audrey Prost
- Sherpa beliefs and western medicine: providing health care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal / Susan Heydon
- Bon lineage doctors and the local transmission of knowing medical practice in Nagchu / Mona Schrempf
- A crisis of confidence: a comparison between shifts in Tibetan medical education in Nepal and Tibet / Sienna Craig
- Making a medical living: on the monetisation of Tibetan medicine in Spiti / Florian Besch
- The land of milk and barley: medicinal plants, staple foods, and discourses of subjectivity in Rgyal thang / Denise Glover
- Engaging the subtle body: re-approaching bla rituals in the Himalaya / Barbara Gerke
- Spirit causation and illness in Tibetan medicine / Geoffrey Samuel
- 'Life-wind illness' in Tibetan medicine: depression, generalised anxiety, and panic attack / Eric Jacobson
- Tibetan medicine and the classification and treatment of mental illness / Colin Millard
- 'Magical movements' ('phrul 'khor) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM therapy / M. Alejandro Chaoul
- An early Tibetan history of Indian medicine / Dan Martin
- Tibetan and Chinese pulse diagnostics: a comparison-with special reference to locations for pulse taking / Yan Zhen and Cai Jingfeng
- The making of the Blue beryl: some remarks on the textual sources of the famous commentary of Sangye Gyatsho (1653-1705) / Olaf Czaja
- Preliminary investigations into new oral and textual sources on Byang Lugs: the 'northern school' of Tibetan medicine / Theresia Hofer
- Embryology and embodiment in Tibetan literature: narrative epistemology and the rhetoric of identity / Frances Garrett
- Brief outlook: desiderata in the study of the history of Tibetan medicine / Henk Blezer ... et al.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Medicine, Tibetan -- Congresses
- Medical anthropology -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan -- History -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- India -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- Nepal -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- Tibet -- Congresses
- Cultural Characteristics -- India -- Congresses
- Cultural Characteristics -- Nepal -- Congresses
- Cultural Characteristics -- Tibet -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- India -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- Nepal -- Congresses
- Medicine, Tibetan Traditional -- history -- Tibet -- Congresses
- Other authors/contributors:
- Schrempf, Mona
- Also Titled:
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- PIATS 2003
- Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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