Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds - Epistemologies of Healing

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2011.; 8; This volume explore 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.. Publisher Marketing: This volume explore 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. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 64 (EAN 9781845457587, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Adams, Vincanne Vincanne Adams is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Stacy Leigh Pigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. Contributor Bio:  Craig, Sienna R Sienna Craig is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author of "Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalaya" and coeditor of "Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds".