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Tradition and Modernity in Mongolian Medicine
Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Short Title: Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2004/10//
Pages: 743 - 749
Sources ID: 97066
Visibility: Public (group default)
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The article focuses on a research visit to the Traditional Mongolian Centre of Liver Diseases (TMCLD) in Ulaanbaatar in September 2000 and covers the history and current practice of the TMCLD and the place of spiritual healing and pharmacology in Mongolian medicine. The author, a medical anthropologist, analyzes the innovations and changes that traditional Mongolian medicine has undergone over the past 10 years. The center's interrelationships with tradition and modernity, played out on the stage of medical health care, seemed unique compared to other healing traditions, the author had come across in Asia.