Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Notes on Transliteration xiii
6. Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion 1
7. Part I Histories of Tibetan Medical Modernities
8. Introduction 29
9. Chapter 2 Biomedicine in Tibet at the Edge of Modernity 33
10. Chapter 3 Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities 57
11. Part II Producing Science, Truth and Medical Moralities
12. Introduction 79
13. Chapter 4 Navigating ‘Modern Science’ and ‘Traditional Culture’: the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India 83
14. Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice 107
15. Chapter 6 Correlating Biomedical and Tibetan Medical Terms in Amchi Medical Practice 127
16. Part III Therapeutic Rituals, Situated Choices
17. Introduction 153
18. Chapter 7 Between Mantra and Syringe: Healing and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Contemporary Amdo 157
19. Chapter 8 From Home to Hospital: the Extension of Obstetrics in Ladakh 185
20. Chapter 9 From Empowerments to Power Calculations: Notes on Efficacy, Value and Method 215
21. Part IV Research in Translation
22. Introduction 241
23. Chapter 10 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology in Tibetan Medicine: the History, Background and Development of Research in Sowa Rigpa 245
24. Chapter 11 The Four Tantras and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (’bras) versus Cancer 265
25. Chapter 12 Re-integrating the Dharmic Perspective in Bio-Behavioural Research of a ‘Tibetan Yoga’ (tsalung trülkhor) Intervention for People with Cancer 297
26. Chapter 13 Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility 319
27. Notes on Contributors 333
28. Index 337