Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in the age of reform / Theresia Hofer.
Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in the age of reform / Theresia Hofer.
Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in the age of reform / Theresia Hofer.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
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G 2019/2932
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English
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xv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Foreword / by Stevan Harrell -- The Tibetan medical house -- Medicine and religion in the politics and public health of the Tibetan state -- Narrative, time, and reform -- The medico-cultural revolution -- Reviving Tibetan medicine, integrating biomedicine -- Looking at illness.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Date Published
[2018]
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"Medicine on the Margins explores the ways in which Tibetan medical doctors have preserved and revitalized aspects of Tibetan medicine over the past fifty years. During decades of forced sociopolitical and economic upheaval in Tsang Province of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region--with medical texts destroyed or hidden, teachers and lamas imprisoned...
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Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in the age of reform / Theresia Hofer.
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Studies on ethnic groups in China
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/2932
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74VKVB8yK0Mg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVB8yK0Mg
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9780295742984
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610.9515
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991024242112702626
