Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine by McGrath, William A.

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004401495)

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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine by McGrath, William A.

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine

$151.00
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine by McGrath, William A.

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine

$151.00
Format: Hardcover
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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of the bodily humors, to the rebranding of Tibetan precious pills for cross-cultural consumption in the People's Republic of China, each chapter explores representations and transformations of medical concepts across different historical, cultural, and/or intellectual contexts. Taken together this volume offers new perspectives on both well-known Tibetan medical texts and previously unstudied sources, blazing new trails and expanding the scope of the academic study of Tibetan medicine.
Contributors include: Henk W.A. Blezer, Yang Ga, Tony Chui, Katharina Sabernig, Tawni Tidwell, Tsering Samdrup, Carmen Simioli, William A. McGrath, Susannah Deane and Barbara Gerke

Author: William A. McGrath
ISBN-10: 9004401490
ISBN-13: 9789004401495
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2019
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d
By William A. McGrath
By William A. McGrath
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William A. McGrath, Ph.D. (2017), University of Virginia, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Manhattan College. His research concerns the intersections of religion and medicine in Tibet, and his dissertation is about the institutionalization of medicine at the Buddhist monastery.

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