{"product_id":"healing-elements-efficacy-and-the-social-ecologies-of-tibetan-medicine-9780520273245","title":"Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine","description":"Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has found a place within the multibillion-dollar market for complementary, traditional, and herbal medicines as people around the world seek alternative paths to wellness. \u003ci\u003eHealing Elements\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Tibetan medicine circulates through diverse settings in Nepal, China, and beyond as commercial goods and gifts, and as target therapies and panacea for biophysical and psychosocial ills. Through an exploration of efficacy - what does it mean to say Tibetan medicine \"works\"? - this book illustrates a bio-politics of traditional medicine and the meaningful, if contested, translations of science and healing that occur across distinct social ecologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSienna Craig\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHorses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalaya\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMedicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50899376144658,"sku":"9780520273245","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b16a659-682c-4af7-83eb-9fe1cc3b3970.jpg?v=1738352403","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/healing-elements-efficacy-and-the-social-ecologies-of-tibetan-medicine-9780520273245","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}