Their footprints remain biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier
By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. <i>Their Footprints Remain</i> uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascin...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press
c2007.
Amsterdam : [2007] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | IIAS publications series. Monographs ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427560406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps and Tables
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1. Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong
- 2. Sikkim: Imperial Stepping-stone to Tibet
- 3. Biomedicine and Buddhist Medicine in Tibet
- 4. Medical myths and Tibetan trends
- 5. Bhutan: A Later Development
- 6. The Choice of Systems
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Attendance at Gyantse and Yatung IMS dispensaries
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
