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Medicine Between Science and Religion

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Epistemologies of Healing, Band 10 1. Aufl.

von: Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, Sienna R. Craig
32,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.12.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9781845459741
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	324

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Notes on Contributors
 <a>Introduction</a>
 Chapter 1. Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig
 PART I: HISTORIES OF TIBETAN MEDICAL MODERNITIES
 Chapter 2. Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity Alex McKay
 Chapter 3. Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities Martin Saxer
 PART II: PRODUCING SCIENCE, TRUTH AND MEDICAL MORALITIES
 Chapter 4. Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: The Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India Stefan Kloos
 Chapter 5. A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice Vincanne Adams, Rinchen Dhondup and Phuoc Le
 Chapter 6. Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Concepts in Amchi Medical Practice Barbara Gerke
 PART III: THERAPEUTIC RITUALS AND SITUATED CHOICES
 Chapter 7. Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo Mona Schrempf
 Chapter 8. The Extension of Obstetrics In Ladakh Kim Gutschow
 Chapter 9. From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value, and Method Sienna R. Craig
 PART IV: RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION
 Chapter 10. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: History, Background, and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa Mingji Cuomu
 Chapter 11. The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer Olaf Czaja
 Chapter 12. Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a Tibetan Yoga Intervention (tsalung trükhor) for People with Cancer M. Alejandro Chaoul
 Epilogue
 Chapter 13. Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility Geoffrey Samuel
 Index

Autorenportrait

Mona Schrempf is a social and cultural anthropologist and post-doctoral research fellow at the East medicine Research Centre, Complementary Medicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster London (2012-2015). Her present research concerns the globalisation of Tibetan medicine(s) in Europe and Asia that is part of the Wellcome Trust funded project “Beyond Tradition: Ways of Knowing and Styles of Practice in East Asian Medicines 1000 to the Present”. She is senior co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal <a href="http://www.brill.nl/asian-medicine">Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity</a>. Having studied at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin (PhD 2001), with a focus on the anthropology of ritual, performance and religion in South Asia, she has undertaken long-term ethnographic research and fieldwork in rural Tibetan communities in China, the Indian Himalayas and Bhutan on Tibetan medicine, ritual healing, public and women’s reproductive health as well as religious festivals and ethnic identity. Her books are Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society (eds. with S. Craig, M. Cuomu, F. Garrett, IITBS  2010), Figurations of Modernity. Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective (eds. with V. Houben, Campus 2008), and Soundings in Tibetan Medicine (ed., Brill 2007).