Tibetan medicine today. Neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World. Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Short Title:
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World. Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2008/01/01/
Sources ID:
98091
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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This chapter offers a renewal of the ‘grids of interpretation' that are applied to Asian scholarly medicine by taking the case of Tibetan medicine. It presents a descriptive model, namely neotraditionalism, which serves to circumscribe the contemporary tendencies characterizing Tibetan and other Asian medicines.