ISBN:
0295742984
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0295742992
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9780295742984
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9780295742991
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 286 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Studies on ethnic groups in China
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hofer, Theresia Medicine and memory in Tibet
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hofer, Theresia Medicine and memory in Tibet
DDC:
610.9515
Keywords:
Medicine, Tibetan History
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20th century
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Medicine, Tibetan History
;
21st century
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Physicians History
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China
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Tibet Autonomous Region
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Memory Social aspects
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History
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China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region
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Social networks History
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China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region
;
Ethnicity History
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China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region
;
Social change History
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China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region
;
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
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History of Medicine
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Physicians history
;
Ethnic Groups history
;
Social Change history
;
Ethnicity
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International relations
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Medicine, Tibetan
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Memory Social aspects
;
Physicians
;
Social change
;
Medicine, Tibetan History 20th century
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Medicine, Tibetan History 21st century
;
Physicians History
;
Memory Social aspects
;
History
;
Social networks History
;
Ethnicity History
;
Social change History
;
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
;
China
;
China
;
China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region
;
Physicians history
;
Ethnic Groups history
;
Social Change history
;
Tibet
;
China
;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Social conditions
;
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations
;
China Relations
;
Tibet
;
Arzt
;
Alternative Medizin
;
Stamm
;
Sozialer Wandel
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Geschichte 1950-
Abstract:
Scope and content: "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 or otherwise silenced, and almost all trade in medicinal ingredients halted--they had little hope that their 'science of healing' (Sowa Rigpa) would again flourish. Today, however, Tibetan medicine is in vogue, promoted by the Chinese Communist Party as a pillar industry of Tibet and a valuable asset of Tibetans' 'nationality minority culture.' For urban Tibetans, traditional medicine is one of the few areas where a relatively liberal expression of Tibetan identity and language is possible. In urban, medically pluralistic settings it is an easily available resource, while in remote areas, its practice and transmission to the younger generation faces many challenges. The passing away of the last practitioner of a certain pulse-reading or compounding of an herbal formula, for example, could mean the end of a long chain of transmission. For reasons of lack of access, continued repression of nonofficial histories, fear, and loss of living memory, Tibetan medical doctors--the so-called amchi--have been little studied. This volume presents their story, showing how practitioners from Tsang have retained crucial links in the teaching of medical knowledge despite the near-annihilation of monastic Buddhism and 'medical houses'"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
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 -- Glossary
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Online version:: Hofer, Theresia.: Medicine on the margins
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