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

• Egile nagusia: Hofer, Theresia (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Washington University of Washington Press 2018
• Saila: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Gaiak: Medicine; medicine; Tibet; medical revivalism; history
• Sarrera elektronikoa: 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...