Being human in a Buddhist world: an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Technical NoteAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: In the Capital1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of AgePart II: Bones of Contention3. The Word of the Buddha4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the HandCoda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at OncePart III: Roots of the Profession6. Women and Gender7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a Material RealmConclusion: Ways and Means for MedicineNotesBibliographiesIndex

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