| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library,
1568-6183 ;
v. 10/10
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 10/10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of studies on the anthropology and history of Tibetan medicine. This work provides fresh insights into both dynamic developments and historical continuities in medical knowledge and practice that have been manifest in a range of traditional and contemporary Tibetan societies. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine, Tibetan -- Congresses.
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Medicine, Tibetan. |
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Medical anthropology -- Congresses.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Medicine, Tibetan -- History -- Congresses.
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History. |
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Medicine, Tibetan Traditional. |
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Cultural Characteristics. |
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Nepal. |
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India. |
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Tibet Autonomous Region. |
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China. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Schrempf, Mona.
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| Added Title |
PIATS 2003 |
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Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar (10th : 2003 : Oxford, England). Soundings in Tibetan medicine. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004155503 9004155503 (DLC) 2007035849 (OCoLC)169452661 |
| ISBN |
9789047422105 (electronic book) |
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9047422104 (electronic book) |
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9789004155503 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004155503 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004155503.i-449 |
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