TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyatso,Janet
TI  - Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
SN  - 9780231538329
AV  - BQ7584 -- .G938 2015eb 
U1  - 610.951509033 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Buddhism - Tibet Region - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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