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Kloos, Stephan.

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Tibetan medicine in exile the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tibetan medicine in exile the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival./
Author:	Kloos, Stephan.
Description:	381 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 2937.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-08A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3412322
ISBN:	9781124103204

Tibetan medicine in exile the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival.
Kloos, Stephan.

Tibetan medicine in exile the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival. - 381 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 2937.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Francisco with the University of California, Berkeley, 2010.

This dissertation combines ethnography, history and critical analysis to produce the first comprehensive account of Tibetan medicine in exile to date. Beginning with exile-Tibetan medicine's fundamental claim, it asks how its practitioners and institutions strive to simultaneously "preserve Tibetan culture" and "help the world". I argue that Tibetan medicine "preserves" Tibetan culture and produces a modern Tibetan nation by instantiating, materializing and validating Tibetan Buddhist ethics -- and thus Tibetan culture and nation -- in its medical knowledge, its institutions, doctors, pills, and efficacy. At the same time, it claims to "help the world" not only by transforming itself into a globally recognized (and recognizable) system of alternative medicine providing herbal pills to an international community of patients, but also by producing an alternative, uniquely Tibetan modernity that addresses the perceived shortcomings and desires of Western modernity.

ISBN: 9781124103204Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Tibetan medicine in exile the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival.
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520 $a The dissertation is organized in seven chapters including the introduction. After outlining the analytic framework and introducing the subject matter in the introduction, the chapters proceed from the historical background of Tibetan medicine in exile to the ways traditional connections between ethics, politics and money have been (and are) renegotiated since the 1960s, to the transformation of exile-Tibetan medicine into a medical system and efforts to achieve legal recognition, to finally Tibetan medicine's engagement with modern science.
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