Studies of Medical Pluralism

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Sienna Craig, Mingji Coumo, Frances Garrett and Mona Schrempf (Editors):  Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society [PIATS 2006: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Königswinter 2006.], 2010, 470 pages, 76,50 Euro. ISBN: 978-3-03809-108-0 The two Tibetan medical panels at the XIth seminar at Königswinter, Germany, in 2006 included thirty-four papers …

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Mapping an Epic

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This program’s general research goal – to map the King Gesar epic’s “therapeutic geographies” as a way of studying the intersections between religion and medicine in Inner Asia – was organized around three intertwined research objectives. We planned (1) to examine episodes in this vast epic tradition that depict healing acts or geographic sites that …

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