Medicine between Science and Religion

Medicine between Science and Religion

Series: Epistemologies of Healing

Series: Epistemologies of Healing

Contents

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

Notes on Transliteration

Chapter 1: Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion

Chapter 1: Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion

Part I: Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities

Part I: Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities

Chapter 2:Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity

Chapter 2:Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity

Chapter 3: Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities

Chapter 3: Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities

Part II: Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities

Part II: Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities

Chapter 4: Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India

Chapter 4: Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India

Chapter 5: A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice

Chapter 5: A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice

Chapter 6: Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice

Chapter 6: Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice

Part III: Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices

Part III: Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices

Chapter 7: Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo

Chapter 7: Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo

Chapter 8: From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh

Chapter 8: From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh

Chapter 9: From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method

Chapter 9: From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method

Part IV: Research in Translation

Part IV: Research in Translation

Chapter 10: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa

Chapter 10: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa

Chapter 11:The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer

Chapter 11:The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer

Chapter 12: Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalungtrülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer

Chapter 12: Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalungtrülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer

Chapter 13: Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility

Chapter 13: Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Index

Index