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