02225cam a2200229 a 4500 120223s2012 cauab b s001 0 eng 9780520273238 9780520273245 SDU R603.T5 C886 H 2012 Craig, Sienna R. Healing elements : efficacy and the social ecologies of Tibetan medicine / Sienna R. Craig. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012. 321 p. : ill. HKBU Library "Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must be proven efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards, often through clinical research. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness. Healing Elements explores Tibetan medicine within diverse settings, from rural schools and clinics in the Nepal Himalaya to high-tech factories and state-supported colleges in the People's Republic of China. This multi-sited ethnography explores how Tibetan medicines circulate as commercial goods and gifts, as target therapies, and as panacea for biosocial ills. Through an exploration of efficacy - What does it mean to say Tibetan medicine "works"? - this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine in the twenty-first century. Healing Elements examines the ways traditional medicine interacts with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships and the cultural meanings ascribed to affliction, to the wider circumstances in which practitioners are trained, healing occurs, and medicines are made, evaluated, and used. As such, it examines the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies"--Provided by publisher. Medicine, Tibetan Traditional Tibet. Asian Continental Ancestry Group ethnology Tibet. Holistic Health Tibet. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107731 107731 0 0 lcc 0 R0603 T5 C886 H2012 0 CGB 281213 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-09 2 0 R603.T5 C886 H 2012 1000364961 2025-09-09 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-09 GBE