Medicine and Memory in Tibet Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform

• Auteur principal: Hofer, Theresia (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Washington University of Washington Press 2018
• Collection: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Sujets: Medicine; medicine; Tibet; medical revivalism; history
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both...