Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in the age of reform / Theresia Hofer.

  • Hofer, Theresia
Date:
[2018]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Physical description

xv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-271) and index.

Contents

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 -- Conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
    BW.256.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780295742984