1st Edition
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Acknowledgements Preface by Margaret Lock Introduction 1. Tibetan Medicine Today. Neo-traditionalism as an Analytical Lens and a Political Tool Laurent Pordié Part 1: Modern institutionalization 2. Inventing Tradition: Tibetan Medicine in the Post-socialist Contexts of China and Mongolia Craig R. Janes & Casey Hilliard 3. Place and Professionalization: Navigating Amchi Identity in Nepal Sienna R. Craig 4. The Diffusion of Tibetan Medicine in China: A Descriptive Panorama Chen Hua Part 2: Today’s Politics of Knowledge 5. Integration or Erasure?: Modernizing Medicine at Lhasa’s Mentsikhang Vincanne Adams & Fei-Fei Li 6. Hijacking Intellectual Property Rights. Identities and Social Power in the Indian Himalayas Laurent Pordié 7. Tibetan Medicine and Biodiversity Management in Dolpo, Nepal. Negotiating Local and Global Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas & Yeshi C. Lama Part 3: Tibetan Medicine and the West 8. The Integration of Tibetan Medicine in the United Kingdom: The clinics of the Tara Institute of Medicine Colin Millard 9. Tibetan Medicine Revisited in the West. Notes on the Integrative Efforts and Transformative Consequences Occurring in Massachusetts, USA Ivette Vargas 10. An Ancient Medicine in a New World: A Tibetan Medicine Doctor’s Reflection from ‘Inside’ Eliot Tokar Conclusion 11. The Politics of Tibetan Medicine and the Constitution of an Object of Study: Some Comments Geoffrey Samuel List of contributors
Biography
Laurent Pordié is a Research Lead with the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
'Tibetan medicine in the contemporary world is an excellent compendium which, offering a variety of approaches, has been able to present a lucid picture of the non-homogeneous nature of the Tibetan medical system in the contemporary world. It will be read with great interest by students and researchers in the fields of medical anthropology and Tibetan studies alike.' - Alicja Rucinska - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 15, 409-455
'The collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the impact of globalisation on ‘indigenous’ medicines of Asia. Many of the issues it raises as well as the conceptual value of ‘neo-traditionalism’ are not limited to Tibetan medicine alone. Scholars working on ‘indigenous’ healing traditions, particularly in Asia, but also beyond, will find in this collection much to which they can relate and from which they can learn.' - Projit Bihari Mukharji, McMaster University - Social History of Medicine 2009
