| Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness Contributor(s): Saxer, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857457721 ISBN-13: 9780857457721 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Medical | Occupational & Industrial Medicine |
| Dewey: 610.951 |
| LCCN: 2012033461 |
| Series: Epistemologies of Healing |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.27 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saxer, Martin: - Martin Saxer received a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2003, he has worked on the history and contemporary practice of Tibetan medicine in Russia (Buryatia) and Tibet. He is the director of the documentary film 'Journeys with Tibetan Medicine' and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com. |