Medicine Between Science And Religion (epistemologies Of Healing) [Paperback]

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.

Vincanne Adamsis Professor and Director of the University of California San Francisco Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology (joint with UC Berkeley). Her books includeTigers of the Snow and Other VirtualSherpas(1996),Doctors for Democracy(1998) andSex and Development(with Stacy Pigg, 2005).

Sienna R. Craigis an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author ofHealing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine(2012)?and?Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalayas(2008), and the co-editor ofStudies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society(2011).

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