Taming the Poisonous Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice

Taming the Poisonous Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice

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This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the "pharmaceutical nexus" of mercury in Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) where, since the thirteenth century, it has mainl...

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Main Author: Gerke, Barbara (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) 2021
Series:Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality 7
Subjects:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Tibetan Medicine/Sowa Rigpa
Mercury in Asian Medicine
Medical Anthropology
Mercury Toxicity
Minamata Convention
Tibetische Medizin/Sowa Rigpa
Quecksilber in asiatischer Medizin
Medizinische Anthropologie
Quecksilbergiftigkeit
Minamata-Übereinkommen
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