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India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or <i>amchi</i>, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume exami
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Laurent Pordié; Stephan Kloos
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, 2022.
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478014454
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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