| Contents |
1. Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion / Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig -- PART I: HISTORIES OF TIBETAN MEDICAL MODERNITIES -- 2. Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity / Alex McKay -- 3. Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities / Martin Saxer -- PART II: PRODUCING SCIENCE, TRUTH AND MEDICAL MORALITIES -- 4. Navigating 'Modern Science' and 'Traditional Culture': The Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India / Stefan Kloos -- 5. A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice / Vincanne Adams, Renchen Dhondup and Phuoc Le -- 6. Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice / Barbara Gerke -- PART III: THERAPEUTIC RITUALS, SITUATED CHOICES -- 7. Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo / Mona Schrempf -- 8. From Home to Hospital: The Extension of Obstetrics In Ladakh / Kim Gutschow -- 9. From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value, and Method / Sienna R. Craig -- PART IV: RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION -- 10. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: History, Background, and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa / Mingji Cuomu -- 11. The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä ('bras) versus Cancer / Olaf Czaja -- 12. Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a 'Tibetan Yoga' (tsalung trükhor) Intervention for People with Cancer / M. Alejandro Chaoul -- 13. Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility / Geoffrey Samuel. |
| Abstract |
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such "science" gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice. |
