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Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
By: Sienna R Craig

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Author: Sienna R Craig
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780520273245
Publication Date: July 2012

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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.

Preface		xi
Acknowledgments		xiii
Notes on the Use of Non-English Terms		xvii
List of Acronyms		xix
Introduction		1
1.	Portrait of a Himalayan Healer	27
2.	The Pulse of an Institution	48
3.	Lineage and Legitimacy	78
4.	Therapeutic Encounters	112
5.	Good Manufacturing Practices	146
6.	Cultivating the Wilds	183
7.	The Biography of a Medicine	215
Conclusion		253
Glossary		263
Notes		275
Bibliography		285
Index		309

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