02681nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801360007608200160021210000210022824500970024926000580034630000260040436500090043050502240043952014990066365000240216265000230218665000350220965000510224465000210229565000140231665000180233065000340234870000210238220211206153312.0211126b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780520273245 a:International Book Distributorsb:Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi c:117039d:15/11/2021  a610.515 CRA aCraig, Sienna R. aHealing Elements :b Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicinec/ Sienna R Craig aBerkerleyb : University of California Press,c 2012. axx, 321 pagesc24cm.  b2723 a Introduction -- Portrait of a Himalayan healer -- The pulse of an institution -- Lineage and legitimacy -- Therapeutic encounters -- Good manufacturing practices -- Cultivating the wilds -- The biography of a medicine. aTibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must be proven efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards, often through clinical research. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness. Healing Elements explores Tibetan medicine within diverse settings, from rural schools and clinics in the Nepal Himalaya to high-tech factories and state-supported colleges in the People's Republic of China. This multi-sited ethnography explores how Tibetan medicines circulate as commercial goods and gifts, as target therapies, and as panacea for biosocial ills. Through an exploration of efficacy - What does it mean to say Tibetan medicine "works"? - this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine in the twenty-first century. Healing Elements examines the ways traditional medicine interacts with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships and the cultural meanings ascribed to affliction, to the wider circumstances in which practitioners are trained, healing occurs, and medicines are made, evaluated, and used. As such, it examines the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies"--Provided by publishe aMedicine and health aHolistic medicine. aMedicine, Tibetan Traditional. aAsian Continental Ancestry Group -- ethnology. aHolistic Health. aHeilkunde aAnthropology. aHealth & Biological Sciences. aCraig, Sienna R.