Manufacturing Tibetan medicine : the creation of an industry and the moral economy of Tibetanness /

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Author / Creator:Saxer, Martin, 1971- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
Series:Epistemologies of healing ; volume 12
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 12.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13511231
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ISBN:0857457756
9780857457752
1299777864
9781299777866
9780857457721
0857457721
Language / Script:Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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Summary: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-understan.
Other form:Print version: Saxer, Martin, 1971- Manufacturing Tibetan medicine. First edition. 9780857457721 0857457721