Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Contents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\nNotes on Transliteration\nChapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion\nPart I Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities\nIntroduction\nChapter 2 Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity\nChapter 3 Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities\nPart II Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities\nIntroduction\nChapter 4 Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India\nChapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice\nChapter 6 Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice\nPart III Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices\nIntroduction\nChapter 7 Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo\nChapter 8 From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh\nChapter 9 From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method\nPart IV Research in Translation\nIntroduction\nChapter 10 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa\nChapter 11 The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer\nChapter 12 Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalung trülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer\nChapter 13 Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex