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Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine’s attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

Table of Contents

Introduction | 1

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

Mixing Medicines Ecologies of Care in Buddhist

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 1 June 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823294305
      978-0823294305
      ISBN-10 823294307
      Also in:
      Complementary and alternative medicine Tibetan Buddhism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine’s attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction | 1

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

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