Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet.
Gyatso, Janet.
Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (539 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Technical Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Capital -- 1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State -- 2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age -- Part II: Bones of Contention -- 3. The Word of the Buddha -- 4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing -- 5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand -- Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once -- Part III: Roots of the Profession -- 6. Women and Gender -- 7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a Material Realm -- Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index.
A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America's approach to the world in a pivotal decade.
9780231538329
Buddhism - Tibet Region - History.
Electronic books.
BQ7584 -- .G938 2015eb
610.951509033
Being Human in a Buddhist World : An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (539 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Technical Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Capital -- 1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State -- 2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age -- Part II: Bones of Contention -- 3. The Word of the Buddha -- 4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing -- 5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand -- Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once -- Part III: Roots of the Profession -- 6. Women and Gender -- 7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a Material Realm -- Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index.
A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America's approach to the world in a pivotal decade.
9780231538329
Buddhism - Tibet Region - History.
Electronic books.
BQ7584 -- .G938 2015eb
610.951509033