Mixing medicines : ecologies of care in Buddhist Siberia /
Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine's attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2021.
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| Vydání: | First edition. |
| Edice: | Thinking from elsewhere.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cxt |
Obsah:
- Cover
- Mixing Medicines
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 "May All Living Beings Benefit": Passions of Translation
- 2 "To Search for the Solely Rational": Engineering Tibetan Pulse Diagnosis
- 3 "The Medicine of the Future, Now Available": Geographies of Medical Integration
- 4 "Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient": Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies
- 5 "We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering": The Contingencies of Mixing Medicines
- 6 "Nothing in the World That Couldn't Be Medicinal": The Limits of Extraction
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index