Healing Elements - Sienna R. Craig

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Résumé :
Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. This title explores how Tibetan medicine circulates through diverse settings in Nepal, China, and beyond as commercial goods and gifts, and as target therapies and panacea for biophysical and psychosocial ills.

Biographie:
Sienna Craig is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalaya and coeditor of Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds.

Sommaire:
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Notes on the Use of Non-English Terms List of Acronyms Introduction 1. Portrait of a Himalayan Healer 2. The Pulse of an Institution 3. Lineage and Legitimacy 4. Therapeutic Encounters 5. Good Manufacturing Practices 6. Cultivating the Wilds 7. The Biography of a Medicine Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

An outstanding, long-overdue book that will doubtlessly serve as the standard monograph on Tibetan medicine for years to come.--Somatosphere