3 “The Medicine of the Future, Now Available”: Geographies of Medical Integration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 “May All Living Beings Benefit”: Passions of Translation 25
5. 2 “To Search for the Solely Rational”: Engineering Tibetan Pulse Diagnosis 70
6. 3 “The Medicine of the Future, Now Available”: Geographies of Medical Integration 106
7. 4 “Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient”: Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies 157
8. 5 “We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering”: The Contingencies of Mixing Medicines 194
9. 6 “Nothing in the World That Couldn’t Be Medicinal”: The Limits of Extraction 229
10. Conclusion 263
11. Acknowledgments 281
12. Notes 285
13. Bibliography 295
14. Index 319