II Introduction
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2009
Pages:
79
Sources ID:
104841
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Part Two continues to frame Tibetan medicine’s various encounters with modernity by moving from context to content, and by engaging in epistemological discussions about the relationships between Tibetan medicine and science, truth and medical moralities, as well as plays of culture and identity that emerge from these encounters. Chapter Four begins with the role that Tibetan medicine has come to play inside and outside the Tibetan exile community. Kloos argues that Tibetan medicine is clearly linked to a politics of identity in Tibetan exile. These politics transform the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang into the biggest and most important internal and external flagship