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Tibet
A brief history of Tibetan Medicine
References
Adams Vincanne 2002a: "Establishing Proof: Translating Science and the State in Tibetan Medicine" Nichter Mark and Lock Margaret (eds.) New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie. Routledge: New York: 200-220.
Adams Vincanne 2002b: "Randomised Controlled Crime. Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research" In: Social Studies of Science 32/5-6: 1-32.
Adams Vincanne 2001a: "Particularising Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorising of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet." In: Connor L.H. and Samuel G. (Eds.) Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Studies. Bergin & Garvey: Westport, Connecticut and London 2001: 222-246.
Adams Vincanne 2001b: "The sacred and the scientific: The ambiguous practices of sciences in Tibetan medicine." Cultural Anthropology 16(4): 542-575.
Adams, Vincanne 1998: "Suffering the winds of Lhasa: Politicised bodies, human rights, cultural difference, and humanism in Tibet". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 12(1): 74-102.
Beckwith, Christopher I. 1979: "The Introduction of Greek Medicine into Tibet in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries". Journal of the American Oriental Society. New Haven. 99: 297-313.
Dash, Vaidya Bhagwan 1995- 1998: Encyclopaedia of Tibetan Medicine. Being the Tibetan Text of rGuyd bzhi and Sanskrit Restauration of Amrta Hrdaya Astanga Guhyopadesha Tantra and Expository Translation in English. Sri Satguru Publications: Delhi, 5 Vols.
Donden, Yeshe 1986: Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine. Snow Lion Publications: Ithaca, New York.
Clifford, Terry 1984: Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing. Aquarian: Wellingborough.
Clark, Barry 1995: The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine. Snow Lion Publications. Ithaca: New York.
Craig, Sienna R. 2003: "Place and Professionalisation. Navigating amchi Identity in Nepal." In: Pordie L. (ed.) Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary Context. (Forthcoming).
Emmerick, Ronald E 1975: A Chapter from the rGyud-bzhi. In: Asia Major, 3rd series (London) XIX(2): 141-162.
Emmerick, Ronald E. 1981: "Sources of the rGyud-bzhi". In: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, sup 1.III, 2 (1977), Franz Reichle Verlag: Wiesbaden: 1135-42.
Emmerick, Ronald Eric and Das, Rahul Peter (eds.) 1998: Vagbhata's Astangahrdayasamhita: the romanised text accompanied by line and word indexes. Egbert Forsten: Groningen.
Finckh, Elisabeth 1980 (1978): Foundations of Tibetan Medicine. According to the Book rGyud-bzhi. Volume I. Translated from the German by Fredericka M. Houser. Watkins: London & Dulverton.
Jäger, Katrin 1999: Nektar der Unsterblichkeit" Zwei Kapitel aus der Tibetischen Kinderheilkunde: Übersetzung aus dem tibetischen Originalwerk und Kommentar. Hänsel-Hohenhausen: Engelsbach / Frankfurt a.M. /München /New York.
Janes, Craig R. 2001: "Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organisation of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China." In: Connor L.H. and Samuel G. (Eds.) Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Studies. Bergin & Garvey: Westport, Connecticut and London: 197-221.
Janes, Craig R. 1999a: "The Health Transition and the Crisis of Traditional Medicine: The Case of Tibet". Social Science and Medicine 48: 1803 - 1820.
Janes, Craig, R. 1995: "The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine". In: Medical Anthropology Quaterly. 9(1): 6-39.
Kapstein Matthew T. 2001: The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism: conversion, contestation, and memory.
Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Karmay, Samten G. 1989: "Vairocana and the rGyud-bzhi". Tibetan Medicine, a Publication for the Study of Tibetan Medicine, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives: Dharamsala: Series No.12: 19-31.
Mayer, Robert 1994: "Scriptural Revelation in India and Tibet". In: Tibetan Studies Vol. 2. 533-544. Oslo.
Meyer, Fernand 1995: "Tibetan Medicine Today". In: Alphen van, Jan and Aris, Anthony (eds.): Oriental medicine: an illustrated guide to the Asian arts of healing. Serindia Publications: London.
Meyer, Fernand 1992: "Introduction". In: Tibetan Medical Paintings. Serindia Publications: London: 1-13.
Samuel, Geoffrey 1993: Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Mandala Book Point: Kathmandu.
Samuel, Geoffrey 2001: "Tibetan Medicine in contemporary India: Theory and Practice". In: Connor L.H. and Samuel G. (Eds.) Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Studies. Bergin & Garvey: Westport, Connecticut and London 2001: 247-268.
Schrempf, Mona and Garrett Frances 2003: "What is Bon Medicine? Analysing narratives of illness and healing in the history and practice of a lesser known Tibetan medical tradition." In: IIAS Newsletter, January 2003.
Stein Rolf A.1972: Tibetan Civilisation. Translated from French by J.E.S. Driver. Stanford University Press: Stanford.
Taube, Manfred 1981: Beiträge zur Geschichte der medizinischen Literatur Tibets. Monumenta Tibetica Historica, Section 1, Volume 1, VGH Wissenschaftsverlag: Sankt Augustin.
Thinle, Jampa 1991: gangs ldzong gso rig bstan pa'i nyin byed rim byon gyi rnam thar phyogs bsrigs zhes bya ba. Tibetan Medical Institute: Dharamsala.
Tsering, Pema 1980: "Ein Enzyklopädischer Text zur Geschichte der Tibetischen Heilkunde". In: Franke H. Klinge G. (eds). Heilen und Schenken. Festschrift für Günther Klinge zum 70. Geburtstag. Asiatische Forschungen Vol. 71. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden.
Yontan, Pasang 1989: "A History of the Tibetan Medical System". Tibetan Medicine, a Publication for the Study of Tibetan Medicine. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives: Dharamsala: Series No.12: 32-51.
Further reading
Aschoff Jürgen 1996: Annotated bibliography of Tibetan medicine (1789-1995).Ulm, Dietikon: Fabri Verlag, Garuda Verlag.
Available online at: http://www.uni-ulm.de/klinik/neurologie/jaschoff/tib-med/
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library Project:
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/medicine/biblio_medicine.html
Tibetan medicine resources online:
http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/tibetan-medicine-resources.htm
Articles in AyurVijnana a periodical on Indo-Tibetan and allied medical cultures, published by International Trust for Traditional Medicine (ITTM) Kalimpong: 1996-2002:
Available online at: www.ittm.org
List of M.A./PhD./ D.Phil. Theses related to Tibetan Medicine
2005 (forthcoming) Bassini, Patrizica: Home-based Medical Knowledge and Practice: Perception and Experience of Health and Illness among the Amdo-wa in Tibet. D.Phil. Dept. of Anthropology, Oxford University.
2005 (forthcoming) Craig, Sienna R.: Himalayan Healers in Transition: Professionalisation, Efficacy, and Identity among Practitioners of Tibetan Medicine in Nepal. Department of Anthropology, McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
2004 (forthcoming) Prost, Audrey: The object of health, lifestyles, exile & medicine among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala. University College London.
2003 - Garrett, Frances. Tibetan Embryology and the Intertwining of Medicine and Religion in Tibet. PhD. Charlottesville, University of Virginia.
2002. - Millard, Colin. Learning Processes in a Tibetan Medical School. PhD. University of Edinburgh, Department of Social Anthropology.
2000. - Reighter, Cheryl Anne. Riding a wild horse: The role of metaphor in Tibetan medicine. PhD. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000, 173 pages, AAT 9995763
2000. - Jacobson, Eric Emil. Situated knowledge in classical Tibetan medicine: Psychiatric aspects. PhD. Harvard University, 2000, 687 pages AAT 9988621
1999. - Vorndran, Eika. Good to be Human. Coming into Existence in a Tibetan Bon Exile Community. Unpubl. M.A. thesis, Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Wien: Wien.
1999. - Jaeger, Katrin. Nektar der Unsterblichkeit" Zwei Kapitel aus der Tibetischen Kinderheilkunde: Übersetzung aus dem tibetischen Originalwerk und Kommentar. Hänsel-Hohenhausen: Engelsbach/ Frankfurt a.M./München/New York. 204 pages. PhD. University of Bochum. 3-8267-2626-X
1997.- Körbler, Helen. Zur Erkenntnistherorie naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und traditioneller Heilweisen am Beispiel der tibetischen Heilkunde - Erwartungen und Vorkenntnisse von Patienten bei Konsultationen in der tibetischen Heilkunde. PhD. Institut fuer Allgemeinmedizin des Klinikums der Johann Wolfgang Goethe/Universität in Frankfurt am Main.
1993. - White, Sydney D. Medical Discourses, Naxi Identities and the State: Transformations in Socialist China. Ph.D. University of California. Department of Medical Anthropology: Berkeley.
1990. - Desjarlais, Robert. Samsara Sadness: Sherpa Shamanism and the Calling of Lost Souls. Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1989.- Day, Sophie. Embodying Spirits: village oracles and Possession Rituals in Ladakh, North India. Ph.D. London School of Economics: London.
1985. - Calkowski, Marcia. Power, charisma, and ritual curing in a Tibetan community in India. Dissertation (UMI) University of British Columbia, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology.
1981. - Lichter, David John, Person, Action and Causation in a Bhote Ethic. PhD. Stanford University.
1980. - Walter, Michael Lee. The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism. Ph.D. Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies: Indiana University. Bloomington (microfilmed by University Microfilms), Indiana University, Ann Arbor, MI.
Text supplied by Barbara Gerke
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