Medicine between science and religion

Adams, Vincanne [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
Medicine between science and religion : explorations on Tibetan grounds / ed. by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig. - New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2010. - ca. 324 S. : Ill. - (Epistemologies of healing ; 10)
ISBN 978-1-84545-758-7
US$ 90,00 / £ 53,00
DDC: 610.9515
-- Angekündigt für Dezember 2010 --

Beschreibung
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice. [Verlagsinformation]

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VINCANNE ADAMS is Professor and Director of the University of California San Francisco Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology (joint with UC Berkeley). Her books include Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (Princeton 1996), Doctors for Democracy (Cambridge 1998), Sex and Development (with Stacy Pigg, Duke 2005), and she has authored numerous articles on Tibetan Medicine, modernization, research translation, and women's health based on field research in Central and Eastern Tibet. Profile page.
MONA SCHREMPF (Ph.D. Free University Berlin, 2001) is a Senior Research Fellow in social and medical anthropology at the Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin, specializing in Tibetan medicine and reproductive health, Tibetan cultural revival and public ritual performances in Tibetan areas of China and the Himalayas. Among her books are Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society (in press); Figurations of Modernity: Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective (2008), Soundings in Tibetan Medicine: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives (2007). Profile page.
SIENNA R. CRAIG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalayas (Wisdom Publications, 2008), and the co-editor of Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society (IITBS forthcoming). Her work has also appeared in scholarly journals, including Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, and the European Bulletin for Himalayan Studies. Profile page.

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