Article ID: CBB000931902

Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China: Part One (2009)

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This article investigates some of the socio-economic dimensions of contemporary Tibetan healing practices in the rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China. It sheds light on the workings and the effects the commodification of the official Chinese health care system, which started in the late 1990s, have had on Tibetan medicine and how these are related to the concurrent re-introduction of the Co-operative Medical Services (CMS) scheme throughout rural China. The contribution to this journal is divided into two parts. Part One predominantly deals with the medical practitioners and the practices within governmental health care in the TAR. Part Two, which will be printed in the next issue of the journal, deals with the private sector of Tibetan medicine. Both parts focus on the situation in the Tsang or Shigatse region of the western and central TAR, hence enabling there to be useful comparisons with medical practices in the capital Lhasa, most of the anthropological literature has focused on so far. Both contributions are based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in Lhasa and the Tsang region of Tibet.

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Article Hofer, Theresia (2009) Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (p. 492). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Feinsilver, Julie M.
Armstrong, Melissa Diane
Apter, David E.
Campbell-Miller, Jill
Vallgårda, Signild
Stevens, Rosemary A.
Concepts
Medicine and government
Health care
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Sweden
China
Canada
Tibet
Nepal
Institutions
African National Congress
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Health Service (Great Britain)
American Medical Association
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