Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine

Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must...
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Author: Sienna R. Craig
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Language: English
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Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine by Craig, Sienna R.

Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine

$150.77

Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine

$150.77
Author: Sienna R. Craig
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness. Healing Elements 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. Through an exploration of efficacy - what does it mean to say Tibetan medicine "works"? - this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine and the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies.





Author: Sienna R. Craig
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/22/2012
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780520273245


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2013

About the Author
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.

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