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Author Hofer, Theresia, author.

Title Medicine and memory in Tibet : amchi physicians in an age of reform / Theresia Hofer.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 286 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer n rdamedia
online resource nc rdacarrier
Series Studies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Summary "Medicine on the Margins explores the ways in which Tibetan medical doctors have preserved and revitalized aspects of Tibetan medicine over the past fifty years. During decades of forced sociopolitical and economic upheaval in Tsang Province of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region--with medical texts destroyed or hidden, teachers and lamas imprisoned or otherwise silenced, and almost all trade in medicinal ingredients halted--they had little hope that their 'science of healing' (Sowa Rigpa) would again flourish. Today, however, Tibetan medicine is in vogue, promoted by the Chinese Communist Party as a pillar industry of Tibet and a valuable asset of Tibetans' 'nationality minority culture.' For urban Tibetans, traditional medicine is one of the few areas where a relatively liberal expression of Tibetan identity and language is possible. In urban, medically pluralistic settings it is an easily available resource, while in remote areas, its practice and transmission to the younger generation faces many challenges. The passing away of the last practitioner of a certain pulse-reading or compounding of an herbal formula, for example, could mean the end of a long chain of transmission. For reasons of lack of access, continued repression of nonofficial histories, fear, and loss of living memory, Tibetan medical doctors--the so-called amchi--have been little studied. This volume presents their story, showing how practitioners from Tsang have retained crucial links in the teaching of medical knowledge despite the near-annihilation of monastic Buddhism and 'medical houses'"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Tibetan medical house -- Medicine and religion in the politics and public health of the Tibetan state -- Narrative, time, and reform -- The medico-cultural revolution -- Reviving Tibetan medicine, integrating biomedicine -- Looking at illness -- Glossary.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2018).
Subject Medicine, Tibetan -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine, Tibetan -- History -- 21st century.
Physicians -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
Memory -- Social aspects -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
Social networks -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
Ethnicity -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
Social change -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social conditions.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China.
China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Medicine -- History.
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional
History of Medicine
Physicians -- history
Ethnicity -- history
Social Change -- history
Tibet
China
Changement social -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet -- Histoire.
Ethnicité -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet -- Histoire.
Réseaux sociaux -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet -- Histoire.
Mémoire -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet -- Histoire.
Médecins -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet -- Histoire.
Médecine tibétaine -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
Médecine tibétaine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Chine -- Relations -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Relations -- Chine.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Conditions sociales.
Médecine -- Histoire.
history of medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Medicine
Ethnicity
International relations
Medicine, Tibetan
Memory -- Social aspects
Physicians
Social change
Social conditions
Social networks
China
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Memoire -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- 21e siecle.
Memoire -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- 20e siecle.
Anthropologie medicale -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- Histoire -- 21e siecle.
Anthropologie medicale -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Ethnomedecine -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- Histoire -- 21e siecle.
Ethnomedecine -- Chine -- Tibet (Chine) -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Medecins tibetains -- Histoire -- 21e siecle.
Medecins tibetains -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Medecine tibetaine -- Histoire -- 21e siecle.
Medecine tibetaine -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Hofer, Theresia. Medicine and memory in Tibet. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295742984 (DLC) 2017028012 (OCoLC)990257562
ISBN 9780295743004 (electronic book)
029574300X (electronic book)
9780295742984 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0295742984 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780295742991 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0295742992 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000066275756

 
    
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