The pulse in the machine: Automating tibetan diagnostic palpation in postsocialist Russia

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 407-434

  Chudakova, Tatiana ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDEOLOGY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BURYATIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84926030287     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417515000080     Document Type: Article

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