Description
Book SynopsisMixing 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 ContentsIntroduction | 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
