Mixing Medicines : Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chudakova, Tatiana.

Series:

Thinking from Elsewhere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Tibetan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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 encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780823294329

0823294323

OCLC:

1250089461