{"product_id":"manufacturing-tibetan-medicine-martin-saxer-9780857457721","title":"Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness","description":"\u003cp\u003e Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State's policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understanding, the Tibetan medicine industry has become an arena in which different visions of Tibet's future clash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Saxer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857457721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857457721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Martin Saxer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926662775039,"sku":"9780857457721","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6f83d1a4-3070-4c57-81bb-2936ef89ea6e.jpg?v=1681084324","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/manufacturing-tibetan-medicine-martin-saxer-9780857457721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}