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Author McKay, Alex.

Title Their footprints remain : biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier / Alex McKay.

Imprint [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 1
IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Summary "By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries began to introduce Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world"--Publisher's description
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Ch. 1: On the topological complexity of three languages; Ch. 2: Nondeterministic controllers of nondeterministic processes; Ch. 3: Reachability in continuous-time Markov reward decision preocesses; Ch. 4: Logical theories and compatible operations; Ch. 5: Forest algebras; Ch. 6: Automata and semigroups recognizing infinite words; Ch. 7: Deterministic graph grammars; Ch. 8: Quantifier-free definable graph operations preserving recognizability; Ch. 9: First-order definable languages; Ch. 10 : Matrix-based complexity functions and recognizable picture languages.
Language English.
Subject Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- History -- 20th century.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Sikkim (India)
Bhutan.
Missions and Missionaries -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Medicine, East Asian Traditional -- history
Bhutan
Sikkim
Tibet Autonomous Region
China
Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine)
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and culture: general.
Humanities.
History.
MEDICAL -- History.
HISTORY -- General.
Medicine
Bhutan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd89Jk7vXMfMJwqpGMgKd
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
India -- Sikkim https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDmgymBKjbFQhK4KCDY
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Indexed Term Culture and institutions
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: McKay, Alex. Their footprints remain. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007 9789053565186 9053565183 (OCoLC)192072380
ISBN 9789048501243 (electronic bk.)
9048501245 (electronic bk.)
9781281284242 (online)
1281284246
9786611284244
6611284249
9789053565186
9053565183
Standard No. 10.1515/9789048501243 doi
AU@ 000051345742
AU@ 000065899240
DEBBG BV043062567
DEBSZ 422139033
GBVCP 1003593402
GBVCP 802597114
GBVCP 865732515
NZ1 13859942
NZ1 14936148

 
    
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