Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780823294336
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0823294331
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9780823294329
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0823294323
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9780823297481
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0823297489
Series Statement:
Thinking from elsewhere
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliography (pages 295-318) and index
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Cover -- Mixing Medicines -- Title -- 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
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Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chudakova, Tatiana Mixing Medicines New York : Fordham University Press, ©2021
Language:
English
