Tibetan medicine today: Neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool

Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-32

  Pordié, Laurent ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203932544     Document Type: Chapter

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