Introduction: Medicine and Healing in Tibetan Societies
Introduction: Medicine and Healing in Tibetan Societies
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Taipei: Duke University Press
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English
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Taipei: Duke University Press
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This introduction to the special issue of
begins with a survey of recent social scientific work on medicine and healing in Tibetan and Himalayan societies. The author considers the specificity of the Tibetan encounter with biomedicine in comparison with that experienced by other traditions of Asian medicine and introduces both the traditional Ti...
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Introduction: Medicine and Healing in Tibetan Societies
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2625120382
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2625120382
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1875-2160
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1875-2152
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10.1215/18752160-2333224
