Tatiana Chudakova

Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia

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Produktbeschreibung

Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine¿s attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

Produktdetails

• Thinking from Elsewhere
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780823294312
• ISBN-10: 0823294315
• Artikelnr.: 59917770

Autorenporträt

Tatiana Chudakova

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 1
May All Living Beings Benefit
: Passions of Translation 25 2
To Search for the Solely Rational
: Engineering Tibetan Pulse Diagnosis 70 3
The Medicine of the Future, Now Available
: Geographies of Medical Integration 106 4
Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient
: Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies 157 5
We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering
: The Contingencies of Mixing Medicines 194 6
Nothing in the World That Couldn
t Be Medicinal
: The Limits of Extraction 229 Conclusion 263 Acknowledgments 281 Notes 285 Bibliography 295 Index 319