Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in an age of reform

Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in an age of reform /

"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 medic...

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Author / Contributor: Hofer, Theresia (Author)
Imprint: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Medicine, Tibetan > History > 20th century.
Medicine, Tibetan > History > 21st century.
Physicians > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Memory > Social aspects > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Social networks > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Ethnicity > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Social change > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > History.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Social conditions.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Relations > China.
China > Relations > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Medicine > History.
Tibet
China
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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