Medicine Between Science and Religion (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Redaktion: Adams, Vincanne; Craig, Sienna R.; Schrempf, Mona

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845459741
• Artikelnr.: 40173257

Autorenporträt

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 Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity. 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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
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